OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585
The white ground decorated under the glaze with cobalt-blue, bole-red, green and black, the central roundel with a plant growing out of the lower edge into stems of hyacinth, carnation, plum-blossom, and tulip enclosed by a thin black line, the cavetto plain, the rim decorated with half flowerheads, the exterior with a band of alternating green flowerheads and black cloud motifs, the base and rim pierced with a string passed through the foot for display purposes, intact
10 ¾in. (27.4cm.) diam.

Provenance

By repute, from an important Private European family, before 1980

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Lot Essay

The shallow dish (sahan) with a flanged rim is a shape that emerges in Iznik pottery circa 1570 (Atasoy and Raby, Iznik, The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, p.38 and p.44). A dish of this form with comparable decoration is Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt (inv.no. 622; illustrated op.cit., fig.723). Another dish of this form with similar floral spray design was sold in these Rooms, 26 April 2005, lot 22.

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