A Kütahya polychrome pottery lemon-squeezer, Turkey, 18th century

a small bowl with everted rim and a central rounded boss, standing on a foot ring, painted in underglaze cobalt and light blue, relief red and yellow with black outlines on a pale blue ground, the exterior decorated with alternating tulips and red-dotted floral sprays, the interior rim with alternating palmettes and flowering branches, the cavetto decorated with intricate foliage, red-dotted wave pattern encircling the boss painted with a floral motif and a heart on the tip

Overall in good condition, minor nicks to the rim, the foot ring and the boss, a small black mark on the exterior, as viewed.
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