OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580

Details

A LARGE IZNIK POTTERY TANKARD
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580
Of typical form with angular handle, the white ground decorated in turquoise, cobalt-blue and bole-red with repeating bands of small turquoise clouds alternated with cobalt-blue dots, bands of red and white strapwork above and below, the handle with cobalt-blue accents, rim chips with small areas of restoration
71/2in. (19.2cm.) high

Provenance

Dr. Josef Kranz, Vienna,
Sold Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auction-Haus, Berlin, 8 November 1927, lot 21
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 30 May 1986, lot 115
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 9th October 2014, lot 90

Exhibited

Ottoman Treasures: Rugs and Ceramics from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. William T. Price, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2004, no.43

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Lot Essay

An Iznik jug also decorated entirely with clouds, although there white reserved against a dark green ground, is in the collection of Ömer Koç (published Hülya Bilgi, Iznik. The Ömer Koç Collection, Istanbul, 2015, no.194, p.434). That is attributed to circa 1580-85.

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