OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590
The white ground decorated in cobalt-blue, bole-red and turquoise with a central small roundel containing a floral spray within a large swirling flowerhead roundel, the cavetto with a further swirling flowerhead, the rim with stylised 'wave and rock' border, the exterior with alternating green and blue stylised floral motifs
12 1⁄4in. (31cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

The whirling flowerhead design of the present dish is found on a small group of dishes of comparable size, two of which have been sold in these Rooms 15 October 1996, lot 242, and 14 October 2003, lot 71, 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). The present example, however, differs from the others in that the flowerhead is not placed on a ground of fine black scrolls, and that it is enclosed within a larger flowerhead which fills the interior of the dish completely. A rimless dish with a similar effect with one radiating flowerhead was part of the Vincent Bulent collection sold in these Rooms, 26 April 2005, lot 59.

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