A LARGE IZNIK POTTERY DISH

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580

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A LARGE IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580
With sloping rim on short foot, the interior with a central red ground roundel leaving a bold paired arabesque terminating in split palmettes in reserve, enclosing a similar floral panel, the details picked out in cobalt-blue and green, the cavetto with alternating blue and green cusped panels, the rim with spiralling motifs and large S-motif panels, the exterior with blue and green rosettes alternating with black cloudband motifs, rim chips, cracked, foot drilled
14 5/8in. (37.1cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

The confident use of a powerful red ground indicates that this magnificent large dish was made around 1580-85, at a similar period to a dish in the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, which has a central red field of reserved arabesques, (Atasoy, N. and Raby, J.: Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, pl.740) and a mug in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Atasoy, N. and Raby, J.: op.cit., pl.750).

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