OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1525-30

細節

AN IZNIK TURQUOISE, BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY BOTTLE
Ottoman Turkey, circa 1525-30
Of drop form rising to a tubular neck on short foot, the white body painted in turquoise and two shades of blue with a broad band of interlaced meandering floral designs around rosettes, a band of meandering floral designs reserved on a blue ground below, the shoulder with a band of cartouches on a blue floral ground containing inverted vases of flowers, the neck with tughrakes spiralling flowering vine, a band of zigzags around the foot, mouth missing, slight staining, old collection labels on underside
9½in. (24.3cm) high

來源

Mrs. Rowan was the sister of the famous Australian painter, David Strachan (1919-1970), in whose works this vase appeared.

注意事項

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

拍品專文

The main decoration of this bottle is executed in the typical "potters style" which freed the conventions of the earlier Baba Nakkash drawing, introducing a new vitality (Atasoy, Nurhan and Raby, Julian: Iznik the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, pp.114-120). In the main band of decoration the individual flowers are better drawn than in many examples of the period; one can easily see the incipient distinction betwen the flowers which would become so important the following decade. It must have been made shortly before the sage-green colour was introduced; a bottle sold in these Rooms which had that added colour had a main band of decoration which was different in precise floral detail but almost identical in structure to the present bottle (21 June 2000, lot 42). The decoration is also very similar to that of a jug in the Gulbenkian collection (Atasoy and Raby, op.cit., pl.325).