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AN IZNIK BLUE AND WHITE SMALL DISH
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AN IZNIK BLUE AND WHITE SMALL DISH

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1550-75

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AN IZNIK BLUE AND WHITE SMALL DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1550-75
With slightly out-turned rim and of shallow form, the white interior decorated in two shades of underglaze cobalt-blue with a central rosette within a roundel issuing radiating cusped panels within further roundel bordered by small triangles, the cavetto left plain, the rim with small cusped panels reserved against a blue ground, the exterior with alternating roundel and stylized cloud-scroll motif within two pairs of rings, the base with two further rings, minute patches of discolouration, minimal chips on rim
9in. (22.8cm.) diam.
Provenance

Sold Christie's, London, 13 October 1998, lot 213
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Lot Essay

A very similar dish is in the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha (John Carswell: Iznik Pottery for the Ottoman Empire, Doha, 2003, no.11, pp.50-51). The two are very similar indeed, even to the extent of the decoration on the exterior including the rings under the foot. It seems very probable that both were made in the same atelier.

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