An Iznik Polychrome Pottery dish, Turkey, circa 1600

of deep rounded form, decorated in underglaze blue, pale turquoise, black and dark relief red, outlined in black on an off-white ground, a footed ewer at the centre with a palmette on a red ground, encircled by a garland of saz and composite palmettes, the rim with breaking wave pattern, the reverse with alternating rosette and wave motif

Overall in fair condition, chips and losses to the edges of the rim and overall due to abrasion, the foot ring pierced for suspension holes, minor craquelure on the reverse, stabilized repair marks on the front and the reverse of the left hand-side and minor repair in the centre, as viewed.
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An earlier example with similar ewer motif can be found on a dish dated circa 1575, now in the Musée Nationale de Céramique, Sèvres (inv.no. 22695; see Hitzel & Jacotin 2005, p.314).