OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
With sloping rim on short foot, the white interior painted in blue, green and black with red slip with a central blue and red flowerhead issuing red floral sprays forming a quatrefoil, each lobe containing a cusped ovoid cartouche with blue fish-scale, the interstices with paired split-leaf panels, the the border with stylized wave and rock motif in blue and black, the edge painted to imitate cusping, the exterior with alternating paired tulip and flowerhead motifs in blue, green and black, slight fritting to rim, two short hairline cracks to rim, small firing flaw on edge of rim
12¼in. (30.9cm.) diam.

Provenance

Tevfik and Nihal Kuyas Collection, sold Sotheby's London, 25 April 1996, lot 77

Literature

Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby: Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, pl.695.

Exhibited

Turk ve Islam Museum, Istanbul, 1989

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Lot Essay

A very similar dish with tripartite rather than the present four-way symmetry was formerly in the collection of Lady Barlow (Atasoy and Raby, op.cit, pl.687). Another dish, very similar in layout to the present example but with cypress trees replacing the fish-scale panels, is in the Benaki Museum, Athens (Atasoy and Raby; op.cit, pl.427, p.235).

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