Enrica Medugno
Senior Sale Coordinator
Lot 54*
An Iznik pottery dish Turkey, late 16th Century
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£6,000 - £8,000
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Oliver White
Head of Department
An Iznik pottery dish
Turkey, late 16th Century
Turkey, late 16th Century
of shallow rounded form with everted rim on a short foot, decorated in raised-red, cobalt blue, turquoise and black on a white ground with a central roundel containing vegetal motifs and interlace, surrounded by a band of cloud designs interspersed by partial rosettes, the rim with rock-wave design, old collection labels to base, one reading 'H. Kevorkian Collection, 2174'
29.5 cm. diam.
29.5 cm. diam.
Footnotes
Provenance
Collection of Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962).
Private US collection.
Hagop Kevorkian was an archaeologist, collector and art connoisseur of Armenian descent. Having studied at the Robert College in Istanbul, he moved to Great Britain and established a business in Bishopsgate, London, before eventually settling in New York in 1920. Kevorkian organised several ceramics exhibitions in London and New York and was pivotal in developing American interest in 'oriental' art and artefacts, acting as a key intermediary between Middle Eastern governments, clients and museums. Pieces from his collection are preserved in museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Freer Gallery and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Kevorkian also donated objects to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and set up the Kevorkian Fund, enabling the facilitation of excavations and establishing research programmes.