OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580
The white ground decorated in cobalt-blue, bole-red and turquoise with a central roundel containing stylised animals surrounded by radiating lobed panels, a border of overlapping cusped motifs, the exterior plain
11 7/8in. (30cm.) diam.

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 11 October 1989, lot 144

Special notice

This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

Sale room notice

Please note that this dish is not intact, as stated in the printed catalogue, and there is a small repair to the rim.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

This Iznik dish belongs to a group of vessels produced in the second half of the sixteenth century that were decorated with real and fantastic animals. For a discussion on the representation of animals on Iznik vessels, together with suggestions on its links with Balkan metalwork and its imagery as the garden of paradise see Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, p.256 and M. Wenzel, 'Early Ottoman silver and Iznik pottery design', Apollo, vol. CXXX, no.331, September 1989. An animal design dish sold in these Rooms, 21 April 2016, lot 172. Another, with a lappet border, similar to ours, was sold 4 October 2012, lot 241. A wonderful tankard, similarly decorated, was sold in Rooms, 6 October 2011, lot 319.

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