A large Iznik polychrome pottery dish with tulips and carnations, Turkey, circa 1575

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October 25, 04:59 PM GMT

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of shallow rounded form, painted in underglaze dark green, cobalt-blue and bold red with black outlines, decorated with a symmetrical composition of tulips, carnations and stylised flower heads around a central composite floral creation and a lobed arch, the rim with wave and scroll border, paired tulips and rosettes to underside

35.8cm. diam.

Léon-Edmond-Marie Bachelier (1862-1947).

To his granddaughter Marie Lucy Giraud (b.1910), thence by descent.

Collection Guillaume Ephis.

A closely comparable dish is in the musée national de la Renaissance, Ecouen (inv. no.ECL8129), and two similar pieces are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. no.725-1893) and in the Cité de la céramique, Sèvres (inv. no.MNC27427). Another interesting example in the Musée national de la Renaissance presents a related composition with central arches similar to that on the present dish (inv. no.DS2430).