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Lot Essay
Stylistically this 'grape' dish is very close to those produced in Ottoman Turkey around 1550. It is similar to the Chinese prototype of the design (discussed in the note lot 106). It has an early form of the 'wave and rock' border and the classic blue and turquoise colours of the dishes of 1530, as well as the absence of a border line around the central vine panel. But details of the drawing - including the simplified floral sprays of the cavetto and the playfulness such as that seen in the alternate colouring of individual grapes - relate it more closely to the work of the 1550s. A particularly close example to the present dish is in the Musée Nationale de la Céramique, Sèvres (Walter Denny: Iznik, the Artistry of Ottoman Ceramics, London, 2004, p.125).
The dish was sold as part of the Hakki Bey Collection in 1906, and has a subsequent sale, exhibition and publication history. However, a thermoluminescence test performed by Oxford Authentication reports that the last firing of this dish was "less than 100 years ago" (sample no. N125b30).
The dish was sold as part of the Hakki Bey Collection in 1906, and has a subsequent sale, exhibition and publication history. However, a thermoluminescence test performed by Oxford Authentication reports that the last firing of this dish was "less than 100 years ago" (sample no. N125b30).