A pair of Kütahya polychrome pottery cups and saucers, Turkey, first half 18th century

each cup with a cylindrical slightly waisted body on short foot, the exterior decorated in green, red, yellow and blue stylised palmettes within hourglass shapes filled with scale-and-dot pattern, each rim highlighted in cobalt blue, the saucers each with deeply recessed centre and en-suite design

The cup and saucer without blue marks: the cup is intact and in good condition, with only minor fritting to the rim. The saucer with a chip on the rim whose area is not wider than 1.2x0.2cm. The cup and saucer with blue marks: the cup is intact, a crack running vertically down from the rim to the foot, a few minor chips to the edge of the foot and minor fritting to the rim. The saucer repaired from two pieces, as viewed.
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A very similar cup and saucer is now in the Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation Collection, Turkey (Istanbul 2006, p.38, n.19-20, inv.No.151a and 283).