Oliver White
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Lot 45
An underglaze painted pottery Dish Syria, late 15th Century
23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£6,000 - £8,000
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An underglaze painted pottery Dish
Syria, late 15th Century
Syria, late 15th Century
with rounded base and everted rim, decorated in black on a white ground under turquoise glaze, the base with a Chinese-inspired floral design depicting a central rosette within a meandering floral vine, the rim with a band of band of stylised floral, the exterior with a scrolling floral vine
32 cm. diam.
32 cm. diam.
Footnotes
Comparison can be drawn with a Reitlinger gift pottery dish of this same shape and with similar elements of decoration in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Allan, James W., Islamic Ceramics, Oxford, 1991, pp. 46-47, no. 27). Based on Chinese blue and white porcelain wares imported into Syria from the late 14th Century onwards, the present dish is unusual for its use of turquoise glaze, demonstrating how Syrian potters were trying to break away from simply copying Chinese prototypes.