OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590
The white ground painted under the glaze with emerald green, cobalt-blue, bole-red and black, the central roundel of flowerheads interspersed with pointed leaf-motifs surrounded by repeating acanthus leaves extending into the cavetto, the rim with overlapping cusped motifs, the exterior decorated with alternating trefoil and disk motifs, exhibition sticker to the base, a hole drilled to the foot and rim, hair crack from the rim
10 1/4in. (26cm.) diam.

Provenance

Victor Adda, Alexandria and Rome (d.1965) and thence by descent

Exhibited

Exposition d'Art Musulman, Alexandria, 1925, no.64

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Lot Essay

Iznik dishes with similar so-called kaleidoscopic designs are published by Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, p.243, cat.462-470. Like ours those dishes often have a radiating motif based around a central flowerhead. A number of them also employ the use of small black scrolls in the background, such as those seen on the dish in the following lot. Another dish of this group sold in these Rooms, 1 April 2021, lot 92.

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