Lot 207
An Iznik pottery Dish Turkey, 17th Century
29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £15,535 inc. premium
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Turkey, 17th Century
Turkey, 17th Century
with sloping rim, decorated in raised red, blue, green and black outlines with the figure of a peacock with outstretched tail, the peacock surrounded by flowers including a tulips and a prunus spray, the rim with a rosette alternating with floral sprays, the exterior with stylised flowers
26.7 cm. diam.
26.7 cm. diam.
Footnotes
There is a dish with a peacock in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, fig. 642).