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An important Iznik pottery Dish Turkey, circa 1560-65 image 1
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An important Iznik pottery Dish
Turkey, circa 1560-65

29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An important Iznik pottery Dish
Turkey, circa 1560-65

deep with sloping bracketed rim, decorated in raised red, turquoise-green, dark cobalt-blue and black outlines with two saz leaves flanking a rosette, two saz leaves and flower above, either side a vine bearing an elaborate palmette, the rim with a reserved roundel containing a flowerhead, paired flowers between, the exterior with groups of three tulips alternating with a rosette
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).

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