Lot 112
112
AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580

Details
AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580
With sloping rim on short foot, the interior painted with a central trilobed palmette issuing curling saz leaves forming a medallion and terminating in half-palmettes, the interior of the medallion with dense blue fish-scale, red heart-shape centred along the upper edge, around the medallion similar fish-scale in green, the border with stylised wave and rock pattern, the exterior with alternating paired blue tulips and flowerheads, repaired breaks, areas of restoration
11 ½in. (29.3cm.) diam.
Provenance
Anon sale, Sotheby's London, 12 April 1989, lot 75
Anon sale, Christie's London, 31 March 2009, lot 184

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Lot Essay


The fish-scale pattern which covers the ground of this dish was first used to decorate a jug in the form of a fish in the Benaki Museum, Athens, dating from the 1520s (Inv.no.10; Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, pl. 124, p. 106). In the late 1570s and 80s it became popular to enliven the background of vessels with fish scale motif, as seen here.

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