OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590

Details

AN IZNIK POTTERY JUG
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590
Of baluster form, with short foot rising to slightly flared mouth with simple loop handle, the white ground decorated with cobalt-blue, green, bole-red, and black with birds and foliage, a similar pattern on the neck, with floral decoration around the mouth
9 7/8in. (24cm.) high

Provenance

Adda Collection

Literature

Bernard Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica: Illustrated catalogue of a Private Collection, London, 1959, no.200, p.47, illustrated pl.3a

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Lot Essay

A very similar jug also decorated with a band of birds, although slightly later in date, is illustrated in Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik. The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, no.661. Another similar jug sold in these Rooms, 6 October 2009, lot 180.

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