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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
The white ground decorated with four sprays of red tulips, divided by arabresque roundels, the rim with
stylised 'wave and rock' motif, the exterior with alternating rosettes and paired tulips, old collection label to
base and rim, a drill hole to the rim and foot, intact
11¿in. (28.3cm.) diam.
£30,000-50,000 US$42,000-70,000
€35,000-58,000
Another Iznik dish decorated with a quatrefoil motif composed of tulips alternated with cobalt-blue
roundels is in the Ömer Koç Collection (Hülya Bilgi, The Ömer Koç Iznik Collection, Istanbul, 2015,
pp.316-7, no.130).

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