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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590
The white ground painted under the glaze with emerald
green, cobalt-blue, bole-red and black, the central
roundel of flowerheads interspersed with pointed
leaf-motifs surrounded by repeating acanthus leaves
extending into the cavetto, the rim with overlapping
cusped motifs, the exterior decorated with alternating
trefoil and disk motifs, exhibition sticker to the base, a
hole drilled to the foot and rim, hair crack from the rim
10ºin. (26cm.) diam.
£12,000-18,000 US$14,000-21,000
€14,000-21,000

PROVENANCE:
Victor Adda, Alexandria and Rome (d.1965) and thence
by descent
EXHIBITED:
Exposition d'Art Musulman, Alexandria, 1925, no.64

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
flowerhead. A number of them also employ the use of
small black scrolls in the background, such as those
seen on the dish in the following lot. Another dish of
this group sold in these Rooms, 1 April 2021, lot 92.
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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1600
The white ground painted under the glaze in cobalt-
blue, green and bole-red with a central rosette
surrounded by a band of tight spirals and a trefoil
design extending into the cavetto, the rim with similar
spirals set with alternating rosettes and palmette
motifs, the reverse with alternating rosettes and trefoil
pendant motifs, an old collection sticker to the base, a
drill hole to the foot, a small chip to the rim
11ºin. (28.5cm.) diam.
£12,000-18,000 US$14,000-21,000
€14,000-20,000

PROVENANCE:
Victor Adda, Alexandria and Rome (d.1965) and thence 123
by descent
AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580
This dish is unusual for the ground of tight black spirals
upon which elements of the design are set. In the The white ground decorated under the glaze in cobalt-blue, bole-red and green
1570s and 80s it became popular in Iznik to enliven the with two carnations, the rim with alternating rosettes and paired tulips, the
background of vessels. The most common means of exterior with a similar pattern, some hair cracks, a drill hole to the foot
doing this was the fish-scale motif, seen for instance 12in. (30.5cm.) diam.
on a jug that sold in these Rooms, 28 October 2021, lot £20,000-30,000 US$23,000-34,000
86. Another device however was spirals such as those €23,000-35,000
seen here, familiar from contemporaneous wave-and-
rock borders. The earliest date for this treatment was
around 1560 but at that stage the spirals were done in PROVENANCE:
Victor Adda, Alexandria and Rome (d.1965) and thence by descent
white slip (Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik, the
Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, p.249). It is
particularly uncommon for the spirals to be used as the
background to the rim design, as here, when not as part
122 of the wave-and-rock motif.

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