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Turkey, circa 1560-65
Turkey, circa 1560-65
29.6 cm. diam.
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. 203, pl. 87b;
Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, no. 386.
This superb dish, with its intricate palmettes allied to a colour scheme that includes dark blue, green that has not yet fully developed, and orangey red is an example of the first true polychrome at Iznik.
It can be compared both in terms of colour scheme and design to a mosque lamp from the Suleymaniye in Istanbul, completed in 1557, that is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, fig. 377).