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AN IZNIK BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY BOWL
AN IZNIK BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY BOWL
AN IZNIK BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY BOWL
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AN IZNIK BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY BOWL

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1530

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AN IZNIK BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY BOWL
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1530
Of hemispherical form, rising from short foot, the white interior decorated in blue and turquoise with a central roundel issuing swirling leaves against a cobalt-blue ground, the cavetto with alternating design of cypress trees and floral sprays framed within cusped arches, the exterior with a broad band of scrolling flowering vine within minor paired lines, repaired breaks, areas of restoration
3 7/8in. (10cm.) high; 7 3/8in. (18.7cm.) diam.
Provenance
Anon sale, Christie's, 6 October 2011, lot 301

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Lot Essay


There is a simple elegance to the design of this bowl, typical of the so-called 'potter's style'. The cypress trees recall those on the bottle base formerly in the Jasim Homaizi collection and now in the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha (Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, p.164, no.304). They have the same meandering wavy lines articulating them. The exterior of the bowl is similar to that of a bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum attributed to 1530-40 (Atasoy and Raby, op.cit., p.108, no.134). The interior of that bowl, in contrast to ours, was decorated in a simple version of the tughrakes style.

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