An Iznik polychrome pottery dish, Turkey, circa 1580
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
of shallow rounded form with slightly everted rim, painted in underglaze cobalt-blue, green and bole-red, outlined in black, decorated with floral stems in reserve against a cobalt-blue roundel, the rim with wave and scroll motif, the reverse with alternating foliate motifs, Ralph Brocklebank collection labels dated '12.IX.XVI’ and numbered '151', and ‘No. [233] … Hakky bey’ label to foot
31.3cm. diam.
Ex-collection Hakky-Bey (active 1882-94), Paris, before 1893
Collection Hakky Bey, Objets d’art et de haute curiosité arabes et européens, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 5-10 March 1906, lot 151 (unillustrated)
Ex-collection Ralph Brocklebank (1840-1921), Haughton, Cheshire, by 12 September 1916;
Thence by descent
Palais de l’Industrie, Exposition de l’art musulman, Paris, 1893
Exposition de l’art musulman, Palais de l’Industrie, Paris, 1893, p.89 (unillustrated)
Comparable dishes with prunus tree blossoms are now in museum collections such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Museum, Lisbon, inv. no.787 & no.798 and the British Museum, London, inv. no.FB.IS.4 (see Atasoy and Raby 1989, nos.746-8).
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