A large Kütahya blue and white jug, Turkey, 18th Century

of globular body and tubular neck on a large foot with a slighly curved handle, decorated in underglaze blue and white with the three bands, each with a pattern of lobed palmettes containing a floral design, stylised flowerheads to the shoulder

Couleurs d'Orient, Brussels, 2010

Brussels 2010, p.112

In generall good condition, with hairline cracks along surface, restored handle, as viewed.
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Another blue and white jug of similar form and decorated with a closely related design was in the Adda Collection (Rackham 1959, fig.97B, no.224A, p.52). Rackham dates the jug to the first half of the eighteenth century and relates its shape to that of the German Westerwald stoneware jugs that were being exported widely in this period (ibid., p.53).