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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590
The white ground decorated in green, bole-red and
cobalt-blue with a central radiating roundel, within a
green border with a meandering tendril issuing stylised
leaves, the exterior with alternating green and blue floral
motifs, minor chips to the rim, intact
10Ωin. (26.7cm.) diam.
£12,000-16,000 US$17,000-22,000
€14,000-18,000

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590
The interior decorated in cobalt-blue, bole-red,
turquoise and black on white ground with a central
radiating rosette within a cloud surrounded by scrolls,
within repeated overlapping lobed motif borders, the
underside plain, losses to glaze around the rim, intact
12in. (30.6cm.) diam.
£6,000-8,000 US$8,400-11,000
€7,000-9,200
PROVENANCE:
Anon. sale in these Rooms, 14 October 2003, lot 71
Iznik dishes with similar so-called kaleidoscopic
designs are published by Nurhan Atasoy and Julian
Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London,
1989, p.243, cat.462-470. Like ours those dishes
often have a radiating motif based around a central
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flowerhead. A number of them also employ the use
of small black scrolls in the background. An almost
identical dish is in the Ashmolean Museum, attributed
to circa 1585-90 (inv.no.1978-1452; Nurhan Atasoy
and Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey,
London, 1989, no.767).

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580
The white ground decorated in cobalt-blue, bole-red
and turquoise with a central roundel containing stylised
animals surrounded by radiating lobed panels, a border
of overlapping cusped motifs, the exterior plain, intact
11√in. (30cm.) diam.
£30,000-50,000 US$43,000-71,000
€35,000-58,000
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's, London, 11 October 1989, lot 144
This Iznik dish belongs to a group of vessels produced
in the second half of the sixteenth century that were
decorated with real and fantastic animals. For a
discussion on the representation of animals on Iznik
vessels, together with suggestions on its links with
Balkan metalwork and its imagery as the garden of
paradise see Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik, the
Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, p.256 and M.
Wenzel, 'Early Ottoman silver and Iznik pottery design',
Apollo, vol. CXXX, no.331, September 1989. An animal
design dish sold in these Rooms, 21 April 2016, lot 172.
Another, with a lappet border, similar to ours, was sold
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4 October 2012, lot 241. A wonderful tankard, similarly
decorated, was sold in Rooms, 6 October 2011, lot 319.

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