OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580-90

細節

AN IZNIK POTTERY BALUSTER JUG
Ottoman Turkey, circa 1580-90
On short spreading foot, a simple handle linking the shoulder and mouth, the body with staggered rows of cintamani triple roundels issuing paired arabesques on a light lavender blue ground, similar motifs around the mouth, between various borders, mouth and foot chipped with minimal restoration
8¼in. (20.8cm.) high

來源

With Edward R. Lubin, purchased by Louis Bowen 14th February 1964

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品專文

This jug is a later interpretation of a design which was most popular in the middle of the sixteenth century. A small group of vessels were made with a deeper blue ground on which were scattered large cintamani designs divided by secondary paired motifs executed in the typical colours of 1550, as for example, a bottle in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Atasoy, Nurhan and Raby, Julian: Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, pl.320a). In the present jug, while the idea remains the same, the blue ground is much less intense and the drawing more powerful than the earlier examples.