An Iznik rimless pottery dish, Turkey, circa 1585-90
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
of shallow rounded form, painted in underglaze cobalt-blue, bole-red and green, outlined in black, decorated with a central roundel with a floral rosette, surrounded by paired stylised leaves divided by a foliate motif on a ground of black spirals, the reverse with alternating stylised foliate motifs, labels to foot
25.5cm. diam.
Ex-collection Ralph Brocklebank (1840-1921), Haughton, Cheshire
Christie's, London, Rhodian Faience, Majolica,..., the Property of Ralph Brocklebank Esq., 5 July 1922, lot 17
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 240, plate 99d
N. Atasoy, and J. Raby, Iznik. The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, fig. 497
The distinctive ground of this dish is derived from the wave and scroll motif more commonly found on the rim of Iznik dishes. Published examples showcase how Iznik potters played with motifs of block colours and white space in contrast to the tightly scrolled ground to great effect, see, for example, two dishes in the V&A (inv. nos.1141-1864 and 2016-1910), and another sold at Christie's, London, 21 April 2016, lot 193. Further related examples are published alongside the present dish by Atasoy and Raby (1989, p.248, figs. 492-6). Atasoy and Raby attribute these dishes to the work of one Iznik atelier in the 1580s who favoured an enlivened background coupled with broad outlining in their designs (ibid., p.249).
The exuberant design of this dish is most closely related to another rimless dish in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (inv. no.C.21-1950). That dish is decorated with comparable paired stylised leaves on a scroll ground confined within a central roundel. Here the exuberant scrolls extend across the cavetto and are left unrestrained by a rim.
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