OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590
With narrow sloping rim and short foot, the white interior painted in cobalt-blue, bole-red, green and black, the central white rosette within a blue and green roundel issuing red sprays within clouds, an outer border of white clouds with red marks reserved on blue ground, the exterior articulated by concentric circles, with alternating blue and green motif, foot drilled in three places, rim drilled in one, repaired breaks
9¾in. (25cm.) diam.

Provenance

Hakki Bey Collection, sold Paris, Hotel Drouot, 1906, lot 139

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Lot Essay

A small group of larger dishes with very comparable designs is known, two of which have been sold in these Rooms 15 October 1996, lot 242, and 14 October 2003, lot 71, while a third is in the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (Oliver Watson: Ceramics from Islamic Lands, London, 2004, no.T.15, p.440) and a fourth is in the Ashmolean Museum (Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby: Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, no.767). All four are so similar, in decoration and size, together with the fact of each having an undecorated reverse, that they may well have been made as a series.

The present smaller example differs from the others in that the whirling flowerhead is not placed on a ground of fine black scrolls, rather it is allowed to fill the interior of the dish completely.

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