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拍品專文
In the first quarter of the sixteenth century there was a huge increase in the availability of Chinese porcelains in Istanbul, principally due to the Ottoman conquests of Tabriz (1514), Damascus and Cairo (1517). Both written and archaeological records from before this period show a paucity of material. This would explain why, from around 1525, the potters at Iznik began to copy these magnificent pieces and therefore get away from the Baba Nakkas style which had been the standard until this time. A flowering of new styles was the result.
The present dish exhibits many of the characteristics of this early period. The glaze is opaque, rather than the glassy lead glaze which came in shortly before the middle of the century. The shape is one which became very popular at Iznik, though it is found less often in Chinese porcelain. Usually the border is even narrower; here it has been slightly widened in order to fit the wave and scroll border which was the most popular of all border designs from this period until the middle of the next century. A closely related narrow version of this border from the same period can be seen on a dish whose main field shows the 'Golden Horn' or 'Tughrakes style (Atasoy, Nurhan and Raby, Julian: Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, no.145, p.111).
Dishes of this shape were decorated in a number of different styles at around this period. Atasoy and Raby show four different variations with a fifth on the facing page (op. cit, nos.331-335). Yet another is offered as the preceding lot in this sale. It is however most unusual to have a Chinese design on one of these dishes, such designs normally being placed on larger dishes with barbed rims similar to the Chinese originals. Similar Chinese designs were however copied not only in Iznik but also in Korea: a bowl sold in our New York Rooms had a design which was very similar in both field and border (27 April 1994, lot 54). Despite the differences in field design, the designs on the back for dishes of this period, as evidenced also by a comparison of this dish and that in the preceding lot, are remarkably consistent.
The present dish exhibits many of the characteristics of this early period. The glaze is opaque, rather than the glassy lead glaze which came in shortly before the middle of the century. The shape is one which became very popular at Iznik, though it is found less often in Chinese porcelain. Usually the border is even narrower; here it has been slightly widened in order to fit the wave and scroll border which was the most popular of all border designs from this period until the middle of the next century. A closely related narrow version of this border from the same period can be seen on a dish whose main field shows the 'Golden Horn' or 'Tughrakes style (Atasoy, Nurhan and Raby, Julian: Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, no.145, p.111).
Dishes of this shape were decorated in a number of different styles at around this period. Atasoy and Raby show four different variations with a fifth on the facing page (op. cit, nos.331-335). Yet another is offered as the preceding lot in this sale. It is however most unusual to have a Chinese design on one of these dishes, such designs normally being placed on larger dishes with barbed rims similar to the Chinese originals. Similar Chinese designs were however copied not only in Iznik but also in Korea: a bowl sold in our New York Rooms had a design which was very similar in both field and border (27 April 1994, lot 54). Despite the differences in field design, the designs on the back for dishes of this period, as evidenced also by a comparison of this dish and that in the preceding lot, are remarkably consistent.