OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570
With cusped sloping rim on short foot, the white interior painted in blue, green, black and red with a central carnation piercing a tulip flower head flanked by an asymmetric arrangement of further carnations, another tulip, hyacinths and other flowers all issuing from a central tuft, the rim with stylised blue 'wave-and-rock' design, the exterior with alternating paired tulips and flowerheads, rim slightly fritted, exterior slightly scratched, curling crack from rim
11¾in. (29.6cm.) diam.

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, December 1974
With Mansour Gallery, 1976
The Vincent Bulent Collection, sold, Christie's, London, 26 April 2005, lot 12

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Lot Essay

A particularly closely comparable Iznik dish was sold at Sotheby’s, London, 9 October 1979 and published as dating from the 1560s (Atasoy & Raby, 1989, cat. 401, p.229). Also similar to our dish is a piece in the Omer Koç collection (Bilgi, 2015, cat. 17 p. 118).

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