Footnotes

• Provenance:
  Sir Alan Barlow Collection;
  Sir Thomas Barlow Collection.
  
  Published:
  Geza Fehervari, Islamic Pottery: A Comprehensive study based on the Barlow Collection, London, 1973, no. 263, col. pl. N and pl. 106a.
  
  This Jug is a superb example of Iznik wares with abstract designs that were produced during the reign of Sultan Murad III (1574-1595).
  
  As well as fish-scale pattern, these include cintimani, "S"- clouds and arabesques (Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, p. 260).
  
  Comparison can be drawn with a ewer in the British Museum, London, that also employs white arabesque leaves against a single colour ground (Atasoy/Raby, fig, 733).

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Category: Islamic and Oriental Art / Islamic and Indian Art

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