An Iznik polychrome pottery dish, Turkey, circa 1570

of shallow round form with everted rim, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue, green and relief red, central rosette surrounded by tulip buds, floral bouquets and lobed medallions containing a fish-scale design, rim with alternating flowerheads and tulips, exterior with cintamani and leaf motifs, old collection label "JEAN LAGONICO 41" and old auction house label to base

Ex-Jean Lagonico Collection
Sotheby's Monaco, 7 December 1991, lot 20

In overall good condition, intact, one drill hole for hanging to foot and one attempted (unfinished) drill hole in rim, an X scratched to underside on base, few minor abrasions to rim, some discoloration to interior, as viewed.
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The use of a deep orange-red and greyish green colours on the delicately painted decoration of the present dish suggests it was made at an early date. Two comparable dishes, each with similar scale medallions, are illustrated in Atasoy and Raby 1989, nos.687 and 695. Whereas both these examples and another similar dish in the Sadberk Hanim Museum (Istanbul 1989, p.287, no.171) each feature a similar design, they all have a wave motif border, which is different to that on the present example, decorated with a continuation of tulips and flowerheads on the rim.