ID 828818
Lot 121 | AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
Estimate value
£ 12 000 – 18 000
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590
The white ground painted under the glaze with emerald green, cobalt-blue, bole-red and black, the central roundel of flowerheads interspersed with pointed leaf-motifs surrounded by repeating acanthus leaves extending into the cavetto, the rim with overlapping cusped motifs, the exterior decorated with alternating trefoil and disk motifs, exhibition sticker to the base, a hole drilled to the foot and rim, hair crack from the rim
10 1/4in. (26cm.) diam.
Provenance
Victor Adda, Alexandria and Rome (d.1965) and thence by descent
Exhibited
Exposition d'Art Musulman, Alexandria, 1925, no.64
| Manufactur: | Iznik |
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| Medium: | Ceramic |
| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey |
| Auction house category: | Pottery, All other types of objects |
| Manufactur: | Iznik |
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| Medium: | Ceramic |
| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey |
| Auction house category: | Pottery, All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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