CIRCA 1776-77

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A WARSAW FAIENCE DISH FROM THE SERVICE FOR THE SULTAN OF TURKEY
Circa 1776-77
Decorated in famille verte style, with a central flower vase over a gilt Arabic inscription and flanked by fences within a circular blue ground border decorated with gilt flowers against trellis work alternating with panels of geometric designs and Arabic inscriptions, the rim with three shaped reserves of birds and butterflies flanked by flowers against a blue ground reserved with chrysanthimums and scrolling foliage, the reserve with flowering branches below a brocade border reserved with panels of insects
9in. (23cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

From the service ordered by King Stanislas Augustus of Poland for the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid I (r.1773-89). The gift comprised 280 pieces including 144 plates and cost 6766½ zlotys. It was entrusted to the Ottoman envoy Numan-bey , who returned from a mission in Warsau in 1777. See Barbara Neumann-Wieczorek, 'Die koenigliche Fayence-Manufaktur im Belvedere in Warschau und die Manufaktur von Bernadi und Wolff in Berlin', in Keramos, 60/1973, p.42.

Rara coppia di piatti in maiolica provenienti dal servizio del Sulyano di Turchia, Varsavia, 1776-77

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