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拍品專文
This tankard is remarkable for its size. Atasoy and Raby comment that there is a great variety in the sizes of Iznik tankards (masrapa) - a form which was probably originally based on a leather or wooden original (Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, p.47). To illustrate this point, they cite two examples - a tankard in the Homayzi Collection, Kuwait which stands at 18.5cm. high (inv. no. I/585, Atasoy and Raby, op.cit., no.693) and a tankard in the Gulbenkian Collection which is enormous at 30cm. high (inv.no.820, Atasoy and Raby, op.cit., no.683). This tankard numbers amongst the largest.