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A RIMLESS IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
The white ground decorated in cobalt-blue, bole-red and green with a floral this dish indicate the influence of more naturalistic designs favoured by Kara
spray of saz leaves, carnations, tulips and other flowers, within a narrow border Memi, the chief painter at the Ottoman court in the later part of the 16th
of scrolling vine century. He favoured floral arrangements which were often described as
10¬in. (27cm.) diam.
‘blowing in the wind’ for their sense of flow and movement. For a discussion
£15,000-20,000 US$21,000-28,000 on Kara Memi and his influence on Iznik designs see Atasoy and Raby, op.cit.,
€18,000-23,000 p.222-3.
This fine Iznik dish is exceptional for the fact that it does not have an A rimless Iznik dish with a similarly finely drawn design of swaying flowers
extended rim like most of the dishes from this period. The rimless form is is in the Gulbenkian Collection (inv.no.824; Maria Querios Ribeeiro, Iznik
known from the 1540s and is sometimes referred to as a sahan, a term found Pottery, Lisbon, 1996, pp.169-70, no.44). Like our dish, the cobalt-blue tulips
in archive documents to designate something topped with a metal cover there are highlighted with a series of red dots. A rimless Iznik dish decorated
(Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, with a swaying saz leaf, but on cobalt-blue ground sold in these Rooms, 26
1989, p.44). The gentle swaying movement of the flowers represented on October 2017, lot 206.

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