AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH

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 cobalt-blue, green and bole-red with a symmetrical design of tulip and peony sprays in a narrow stylised wave and rock border, the reverse painted with stylised paired blue tulips alternating with green flowerheads, one repair to border, two hair cracks
12¾in. (32.3cm.) diam.

Provenance

Victor Adda, brother of Fernand Adda,
thence by descent to present owner

Brought to you by

Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse

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Lot Essay

This dish shows the problems the potters could have, even with a glaze that was usually as reliable as the cobalt-blue. In two places this colour has fired as a black rather than the blue that it should have been. It may have been the same feature of this colour that resulted in the few dishes of the 1540s that have a design in black that one would normally expect in blue.

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