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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1630

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1630
With sloping rim on short foot and of shallow form, the white interior decorated with large roundel of densely entwined white foliate tendrils with red highlights around a small central rosette, all reserved on green ground, within triple black ring radiating blue and green stripes with red motifs in the interstices, the rim with grey stylized wave and rock motif with green and blue highlights between further black rings, the exterior with alternating green and blue motives, foot drilled
10¼in. (25.8cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

Interlaced roundels of white arabesques forming a six-sided interlace design against a darker ground are a feature which appears in some of the earliest period blue and white Iznik ceramics (Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby: Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, pl.303, for example), and is indeed a feature of contemporaneous Ottoman design in various media. While a relatively late example, this dish retains the flow of the design much better than many others of the period.

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