.jpg?w=1)
Lot Essay
This impressive dish is directly inspired from the largest Iznik dish on record, dated circa 1585-90, now part of the Wallace Collection, London (see Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, edited by Yanni Petsopoulous, Iznik, London, 1994, fig.532, pp.254-255). With a diameter of 51.5cm. the present dish is even larger than the original piece (47.4cm.).
BFK is the mark of "Boch Frères Keramis' founded by Eugene and Victor Boch and their brother-in-law in 1841 and located in La Louvière in eastern Belgium. Other BFK Iznik-style dishes sold at Christie's South Kensington, 7 October 2011, lot 588 and 9 October 2015, lot 447. See the following lot for other BFK marks.
BFK is the mark of "Boch Frères Keramis' founded by Eugene and Victor Boch and their brother-in-law in 1841 and located in La Louvière in eastern Belgium. Other BFK Iznik-style dishes sold at Christie's South Kensington, 7 October 2011, lot 588 and 9 October 2015, lot 447. See the following lot for other BFK marks.