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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590 OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590
The white ground painted under the glaze with turquoise, cobalt-blue, bole-red This Iznik dish, and that of the following lot belong to a group of vessels The white ground painted under the glaze with a green roundel containing five Although most animal vessels date from the late sixteenth and early
and black, the central roundel containing stylised animals surrounded by a produced in the second half of the sixteenth century that were decorated lively animals, the cavetto plain, the rim with a blue band of overlapping cusped seventeenth centuries, the type is known as far back as 1530s. Finds at Iznik
cushion and dart design, a border of overlapping cusped motifs, the exterior flowerheads, the exterior cavetto with alternating rosettes and paired tulips,
with real and fantastic animals. For a discussion on the representation of have included two blue and white fragments from animal vessels and a third
with alternating green and blue floral and cintamani motifs, two drill holes to repair to the rim, two drill holes and a loss to the foot
animals on Iznik vessels, together with suggestions on its links with Balkan similar piece in the form of a sculpted animal’s head (O. Aslanapa et al., The
the foot and one to the rim, repair to the rim 12ºin. (31cm.) diam.
metalwork and its imagery as the garden of paradise see Nurhan Atasoy and Iznik Tile Excavations, Second Round, Istanbul, 1989, pp.115, 116, 119 and
11æin. (30cm.) diam.
Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, p.256 and £20,000-30,000 US$23,000-34,000 149). Later examples, like this one, tend to be on a green or turquoise ground
£10,000-15,000 US$12,000-17,000 M. Wenzel, ‘Early Ottoman silver and Iznik pottery design’, Apollo, vol.CXXX, €23,000-34,000 and often have the lappet borders found on both this dish and that of the
€12,000-17,000 no.331, September 1989. A wonderful tankard, similarly decorated, was sold preceding lot. Animal dishes with lappet borders similar to both of ours were
in these Rooms, 6 October 2011, lot 319. PROVENANCE: sold in these Rooms, 4 October 2012, lot 241 and more recently 1 April 2021,
PROVENANCE: Victor Adda, Alexandria and Rome (d.1965) and thence by descent lot 93.
Victor Adda, Alexandria and Rome (d.1965) and thence by descent

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