An Iznik polychrome pottery dish, Turkey, circa 1585

of rounded form with flattened sloping rim, painted in underglaze cobalt blue, bole red, copper green outlined in black with a central stylised eight-petalled flowerhead set within a blue ground roundel, the cavetto with stiff lotus petal panels on a green ground, the rim with a breaking wave border, the back with cloud scrolls and leaves, footring drilled for suspension, old French exhibition label on the underside

Joseph Soustiel, Paris

Intact and without repair, rim chips, slight firing flaw in the glaze, overall good, as viewed.
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A related piece was sold at Sotheby's, 15 October 1986, lot 203, and is illustrated in Atasoy & Raby 1989, fig. 764.