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A KÜTAHYA POTTERY BOWL AND COVER A IZNIK-STYLE POTTERY CANDLESTICK
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY SIGNED SAMSON, FRANCE, CIRCA 1880
The bowl on short vertical foot with rounded body, With a waisted conical body, flat shoulder and
the slightly domed cover with pointed knop, the tubular neck, the white ground decorated in dark
white ground decorated in bole-red, green, blue, and light green, with a tiger-stripe design and a
yellow and black, with stylised floral motifs, the cintamani on the shoulder and mouth, maker's
interior of the bowl plain, the base of the bowl and mark on the interior
the cover with bole-red maker's mark 7qin. (19cm.) high
4qin. (11.5cm.) high
£7,000-10,000 US$8,100-11,000
£5,000-7,000 US$5,800-8,000 €8,000-11,000
€5,700-8,000
Inspired by visits to newly-opened museums
In the early 1670s, the Turkish traveller Evliya like the Musée de Céramique a Sèvres,
Çelebi noted that, though by then there were early nineteenth-century French ceramicists
only nine tile manufacturers in Iznik, there were experimented with designs from Islamic pottery.
thirty-four in the town of Kütahya in Western The factory of Edmé Samson (1810-91) became
Anatolia. Productive into the nineteenth century particularly associated with the reproduction of
and predominantly staffed by Armenian potters, ceramics in museums and private collections
they produced tiles to decorate both Armenian (S. Vernoit, Occidentalism, Oxford, 1997, p. 213).
orthodox churches and monasteries and the Though the present lot is quite an original design,
mosques and palaces of Muslim patrons. The it is inspired by the cintamani motifs on early
workshops also produced large quantities of Iznik ware (for a dish painted with these motifs,
smaller vessels, many of which were exported see Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik: the
to Greece or bought by pilgrims on their way to Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, fig.319).
Jerusalem to give as votive offerings (J. Carswell, A Samson candlestick with a almost identical
Kütahya Tiles and Pottery from the Armenian pattern was sold at Sotheby’s, 27 October 2020,
Cathedral of St James, Jerusalem, Oxford, 1972, lot 516.
p.16). The present lot is similar in profile to bowls
in the British Museum, Musée de Sèvres, and San
Lazzaro in Venice (John Carswell, op. cit., p.27).
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Another example was sold in these Room, 25
April 2013, lot 247.

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A LARGE KÜTAHYA POTTERY BOWL
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY
The blue-white ground decorated in yellow, bole-
red, green, blue and black, the exterior with five
repeating stylised leaves filled with red dots, the
rim with a border of abstract polychrome motifs
and red dots between two blue lines, blue stripes
above the foot, the interior plain, the underside
with marker's mark, hair crack at base
3æin. (9.5cm.) high; 6ºin. (16cm.) diam.
£4,000-6,000 US$4,600-6,900
€4,600-6,800
A bowl with a very similar profile can be seen in
the collection of Suna and Inan Kiraç (Sebnem
Akalin and Hülya Bilgi, Delights of Kütahya,
Istanbul, 1997, pp.26-27). For more information
about Kütahya ware, please refer to previous lot
essay.
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