Lot 212
An Iznik pottery Dish Turkey, 17th Century
29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £8,962.50 inc. premium
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Turkey, 17th Century
Turkey, 17th Century
rimless, decorated in raised red, green, blue and black with the figure of a standing female holding a flower in her hand in reserve on a green ground, with a floral spray either side, a guilluche band around the border, the exterior with stylised flowerheads
26 cm. diam.
26 cm. diam.
Footnotes
Figural dishes are rare. For another example with a woman holding a flower, see Bernard Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica, London, 1959, no. 202, pl. 87b.