An Iznik polychrome pottery dish, Turkey, circa 1585
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
of shallow rounded form with slightly everted rim, painted in underglaze bole-red, cobalt-blue, and green, outlined in black, decorated with a central saz leaf flanked by floral stems in reserve against a bole-red ground, the rim with wave and scroll motif, the reverse with alternating foliate motifs, Ralph Brocklebank collection labels dated '12.IX.XVI’ and numbered ‘24’, and ‘Harding 800 19.11.98, formerly in Ld. Leighton collection sold at Christie’s, July ‘96’
33.5cm. diam.
Ex-collection Lord Frederic Leighton of Stretton (1830-1896);
Catalogue of the collection of old Rhodian, Persian, Anatolian and Hispano-Mauro pottery … of the Right Hon. Lord Leighton of Stretton, Christie’s, London, 8 July 1896, lot 168 (unillustrated);
Ex-collection Harding;
Ex-collection Ralph Brocklebank (1840-1921), Haughton, Cheshire, by 12 September 1916;
Thence by descent
This impressive, and relatively large, Iznik dish shows a potter who has mastered the control of the notoriously challenging red glaze developed by the Ottomans. In its early iterations, Iznik potters grappled with its application to mixed results. Here, it is both rich in colour and controlled with precision to demarcate flowers and produce pomegranate cartouches which enclose the paired tulips. A closely related dish is in the V&A (inv.vno.C.2042-1910), although in that dish the cobalt has run slightly when fired, whereas here it remains crisp. A further related dish, also once owned by Ralph Brocklebank, was sold at Christie’s, London, 26 April 2012, lot 268.
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