A large Iznik polychrome pottery dish, Turkey, circa 1600
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April 29, 03:14 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
of shallow rounded form with flat slightly everted rim, painted in underglaze cobalt-blue, green and bole-red outlined in black, decorated with a central roundel with three flowers, surrounded by two registers of saz leaves and floral stems, the reverse with alternating stylised foliate motifs, the reverse with old collection labels
35.5cm. diam.
Ex-collection Stefano Bardini (1836-1922), Florence, before 1902
Christie's, London, 26 May 1902, lot 107
Ex-collection Sir Alan Barlow (1881-1968), London and Oxford;
Thence by descent
G. Fehérvári, Islamic Pottery. A Comprehensive Study based on the Barlow Collection, London, 1973, no.230, plate 97a (mislabelled and 97c)
N. Atasoy, and J. Raby, Iznik. The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, fig.592
The wide form of the rim possibly relates to the Italian influence on Iznik pottery in the early part of the sixteenth century which saw the introduction of the tondino bowl shape (see a Golden Horn Iznik dish in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.EAX.3274). Tondino bowls were thrown with wide, flat rims and a small curved bowl, but here the rim is coupled with a flat base. A dish of comparable form is in the Musée national de la Renaissance, Château d'Écouen (inv. no.E.Cl.8102). A dish of related form was sold in these rooms, 26 April 2017, lot 223, and another is in the Koç collection (Bilgi, 2015, p.467, fig.218); previously sold in these rooms, 14 October 1999, lot 198. The potter of this dish has used two friezes of swirling saz leaves to emphasise the scale of the broad rim.
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