OTTOMAN TURKEY, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
With sloping rim on short foot, the white ground painted in cobalt-blue, bole-red, green and black with a large ewer filled with blue fish-scale motif, the ewer circled by a vine issuing blue and red flowers, the rim with a pattern of paired leaves alternated with half flowers on blue and green ground, the exterior with alternating blue and green motifs, repaired breaks
12in. (30.2cm.) diam.

Provenance

Private Greek collection since 1960s

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Lot Essay

A series of dishes decorated with ewers are in the collection of Ömer Koç, recently published in Hülya Bilgi, The Ömer Koç Iznik Collection, Istanbul, 2015, nos.221-226. Others are in the Musée national de la Renaissance – Château d’Écouen (Frédéric Hitzel and Mireille Jacotin, Iznik. L’Aventure d’Une Collection, Paris, 2005, pp.313-15, figs.462-67). Many of those, like ours, depict a central vessel surrounded by a single vine.

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