An Iznik polychrome pottery dish, Turkey, circa 1575
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
of shallow rounded form with slight everted cusped rim, painted in underglaze cobalt-blue, green and bole-red outlined in black, decorated with a central curling leafy stem surrounded by floral stems, the rim with wave and scroll motif, the reverse with alternating flowerheads and paired leaves
28.8cm. diam.
Ex-collection Sir Alan Barlow (1881-1969), London and Oxford;
Thence by descent
G. Fehérvári, Islamic Pottery. A Comprehensive Study based on the Barlow Collection, London, 1973, no.223, plate 95b
The best Iznik potters were successful in animating the motifs in their works, imbuing them with life and movement. This is one such example where the delicate fronds of the saz leaf stem seem to curl gently in the breeze. It is painted in a thinner wash of the cobalt blue underglaze, producing a lighter shade in a remarkably painterly manner.
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