WESTERN ANATOLIA, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY

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A KÜTAHYA POTTERY BOWL
WESTERN ANATOLIA, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
The ground decorated under the glaze in green, yellow, cobalt-blue, and bole-red, the interior plain with a single flower painted at the centre and a narrow border around the inner rim, the exterior incised with a fish-scale pattern with cypress trees rising vertically, beneath a painted arcade, on short foot, the base painted with a black asterisk maker's mark, intact
4 ¾in. (12cm.) diam.

Provenance

Private Collection, London, by 1991 and thence by descent

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Lot Essay

A bowl of identical size, with an exterior similarly decorated with circles of open glaze cross-hatched with incisions around a central tree-like motif, was donated to the British Museum by Frederick du Cane Godman's last surviving daughter on her death (acc. no. G.318). Other examples can be found in the Monastery of San Lazzaro, Venice, the Royal Scottish Museum, and the Kalfayan Collection (John Carswell, Kutahya Tiles and Pottery from the Armenian Cathedral of St James, Jerusalem, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972, pp. 19-20 and Anna Ballian et al., Switzerland-Armenia. The Kalfayan Collection, on the Path of Memory, Gollion, CH: Infolio editions, 2015, pp. 247, 309).

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