OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580-90

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AN IZNIK POTTERY JUG
Ottoman Turkey, circa 1580-90
Of baluster form on short foot with simple handle linking the shoulder and mouth, the white body painted under the glaze with a design of alternating curling paired tulips and blue saz leaves, similar motifs around the mouth, divided by simple black bands, a band of red and blue lobed motifs around the mouth, pewter mounts to mouth and foot in German style probably 19th century, slight rim chips
12in. (30.5cm.) high including mount

Provenance

Lord Colum Crichton Stuart, prior to circa 1935, possibly from his father the 4th Marquess of Bute.
The 6th Marchioness of Lansdowne
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Islamic Galleries, Ashmolean Museum, 1965-2002.

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Lot Essay

Pewter mounts are occasionally encountered on Iznik jugs and are difficult to date. Similar mounts are found on two jugs published by Atasoy and Raby (Atasoy, Nurhan and Raby, Julian: Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, pls.150 and 600).

The design on this unusually large jug, with its paired flowers, one overlaying the other, divided by a leaf, is on which was adopted with slight variations in numerous jugs of the seventeenth century, mostly considerably lacking the execution seen here.

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