OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590
The white ground painted under the glaze with turquoise, cobalt-blue, bole-red and black, the central roundel containing stylised animals surrounded by a cushion and dart design, a border of overlapping cusped motifs, the exterior with alternating green and blue floral and cintamani motifs, two drill holes to the foot and one to the rim, repair to the rim
11 3/4in. (30cm.) diam.

Provenance

Victor Adda, Alexandria and Rome (d.1965) and thence by descent

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Lot Essay

This Iznik dish, and that of the following lot belong to a group of vessels produced in the second half of the sixteenth century that were decorated with real and fantastic animals. For a discussion on the representation of animals on Iznik vessels, together with suggestions on its links with Balkan metalwork and its imagery as the garden of paradise see Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, p.256 and M. Wenzel, ‘Early Ottoman silver and Iznik pottery design’, Apollo, vol.CXXX, no.331, September 1989. A wonderful tankard, similarly decorated, was sold in these Rooms, 6 October 2011, lot 319.

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