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Lot 229

An Iznik pottery Jug
Turkey, circa 1535-50

10 April 2008, 14:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£8,000 - £12,000

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An Iznik pottery Jug
Turkey, circa 1535-50

with globular body, cylindrical neck and S-shaped handle, decorated in aubergine and turquoise with black outlining, the body and neck with lobed rosettes in white containing stylised flowerheads reserved against a cobalt-blue ground, between the body and neck a meandering band, the mouth rim with a band of scrolls, the handle a restoration
20.5 cm. high

Footnotes

This lot is being sold on behalf of The Erasmus Barlow Expedition Fund.

Provenance:
Sir Alan Barlow Collection; and thence by descent.

Published:
Geza Fehervari, Islamic Pottery. A Comprehensive Study Based on the Barlow Collection, London, 1973, no. 204, pl. 88a

This jug is an example of Iznik so-called "Damascus ware", distinctive for its incorporation of turquoise and manganese purple into the colour palette, which preceded the introduction of relief red in the mid 1550s. It relates to a jug published by Sotheby's (Arts of the Islamic World, 27th April 2005, lot 177); and a plate in the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Maria Queiroz Ribeiro, Isnik Pottery, Lisbon, 1996, pp. 123-23, no. 16;

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