Lot Essay
A very similar jug is in the Gulbenkian Museum (Maria Queiroz Ribeiro: Iznik Pottery, Lisbon, 1996, no.69, p.214).
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OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
Details
AN IZNIK POTTERY JUG
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
Of bulbous form on short foot rising to slightly flaring mouth with simple loop handle, decorated with all-over design of pairs of white split-palmettes with blue highlights forming cusped panels containing red fish-scale, against a ground of green fish-scale, the base with a register of stylized marbling, a zig-zag band of blue on white ground at the waist and a band of white and red half rosettes on blue ground at the mouth, a few smalls areas of paint at mouth and on body
7in. (17.8cm.) high
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
Of bulbous form on short foot rising to slightly flaring mouth with simple loop handle, decorated with all-over design of pairs of white split-palmettes with blue highlights forming cusped panels containing red fish-scale, against a ground of green fish-scale, the base with a register of stylized marbling, a zig-zag band of blue on white ground at the waist and a band of white and red half rosettes on blue ground at the mouth, a few smalls areas of paint at mouth and on body
7in. (17.8cm.) high
Provenance
Hakki Bey Collection, sold Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1906, lot 157
Kelekian, Paris (label on underside)
Private Collection, Marseille
Kelekian, Paris (label on underside)
Private Collection, Marseille
Exhibited
On loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1909 - ?1951 (see biographical entry before lot 31 in this sale).
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