OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1600

The central medallion on this dish harks back to the swirling designs of early Balkan metalwork and fifteenth century Baba Nakkaş ceramics (Nurham Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik: the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, p. 79). A dish with a similar turquoise floral medallion is in the collection of the Château d’Écouen, F. Hitzel and M. Jacotin, Iznik: l’aventure d’une collection, Paris, 2005, p.257. The rumi design around the medallion is comparable to those on a dish in the collection of Ömer M. Koç (H. Bilgi, The Ömer Koç Iznik Collection, Istanbul, 2015, p.431). A small rimless dish with a similar medallion design was sold in Christie’s South Kensington, April 13 2010, lot 240.