AN IZNIK POTTERY JUG with drop-shaped body smoothly curving to a flaring mouth, a moulded band around the neck, with scroll handle and short foot, the white ground painted with turquoise and dark blue stripes outlined in black interrupted by red and black minor bands at the neck, similar black band above and dark blue band below, a red trefoil painted at the base of the handle, late 16th century (slight surface abrasions, repairs to neck) the handle later sheathed in grooved silver moulded at the base to mirror the glazed trefoil | Christie's

Lot 293

293

AN IZNIK POTTERY JUG with drop-shaped body smoothly curving to a flaring mouth, a moulded band around the neck, with scroll handle and short foot, the white ground painted with turquoise and dark blue stripes outlined in black interrupted by red and black minor bands at the neck, similar black band above and dark blue band below, a red trefoil painted at the base of the handle, late 16th century (slight surface abrasions, repairs to neck) the handle later sheathed in grooved silver moulded at the base to mirror the glazed trefoil

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AN IZNIK POTTERY JUG with drop-shaped body smoothly curving to a flaring mouth, a moulded band around the neck, with scroll handle and short foot, the white ground painted with turquoise and dark blue stripes outlined in black interrupted by red and black minor bands at the neck, similar black band above and dark blue band below, a red trefoil painted at the base of the handle, late 16th century (slight surface abrasions, repairs to neck) the handle later sheathed in grooved silver moulded at the base to mirror the glazed trefoil
10in. (25.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

A jug of identical design but with green replacing the turquoise seen here, has English silver mounts bearing the hallmarks for 1586 (Exhibition of the Faience of Persia and The Nearer East Burlington Fine Arts Club, London 1908, no.P7, p.64 and pl.XXII)

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