An Iznik polychrome pottery dish with a red ground, Turkey, circa 1570-75

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Adda collection, circa 1570-75, Iznik, polychrome pottery dish, Turkey

An Iznik polychrome pottery dish with a red ground, Turkey, circa 1570-75. Estimate 4,000 — 6,000 GBP. Lot Sold 8,125 GBP. Photo: Sotheby’s

decorated in underglaze cobalt blue, emerald green, and relief red with dark green outlines, featuring a saz leaf containing a stem of marguerites, in between sprays of rosettes, the border with a stylised foliate design, foliate details on exterior, old collection label to underside; 31.5cm. diam.

PROVENANCE; Ex-Adda collection

Notes: Red-ground dishes such as the present example are extremely rare, and this is a particularly flamboyant and vibrant example. A dish in the Barlow Collection has white leaves on a red ground; see Fehérvári 1973, Colour plate M.

Sotheby’s. Arts of the Islamic World, Londres | 08 oct. 2014, 10:30 AM

An Iznik polychrome pottery dish with burst flowerhead and arabesques, Turkey, second half 16th century

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Iznik, Jacques Soustiel collection, Pignatelli collection, polychrome pottery dish, second half 16th century, Turkey

An Iznik polychrome pottery dish with burst flowerhead and arabesques, Turkey, second half 16th century. Estimate 7,000 — 10,000 GBP. Lot Sold 12,500 GBP. Photo: Sotheby’s

with rounded edges and everted rim, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue, emerald green and relief red with black outlines featuring a large central stylised flowerhead and arabesques, bordered by a band of lobed arches, foliate motifs on exterior, old collection label to underside; 33cm. diam.

PROVENANCE: Ex-Pignatelli collection
Ex-Jacques Soustiel collection

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An Iznik polychrome pottery dish with a prunus tree, Turkey, circa 1575-85

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circa 1575-85, Iznik, Jacques Soustiel collection, polychrome pottery dish, Turkey

An Iznik polychrome pottery dish with a prunus tree, Turkey, circa 1575-85. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 GBP. Lot Sold 15,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby’s

of shallow round form, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue and relief red with a central prunus tree also issuing tulip buds against a turquoise ground, with an abstract border, the exterior with tulip buds and flowerheads, old collection label to underside; 29cm. diam.

PROVENANCE: Ex-Jacques Soustiel collection

Notes: Variations of the prunus tree motif with tulip buds, depicted on backgrounds of different colours and showing the use of stencils on Iznik pottery can be seen in a number of comparable examples now in museums 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, 747, 748).

Sotheby’s. Arts of the Islamic World, Londres | 08 oct. 2014, 10:30 AM

An Iznik polychrome pottery dish with stylised cloud and cintamani design, Turkey, circa 1580-85

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cintamani design, circa 1580-85, Iznik, Jacques Soustiel collection, polychrome pottery dish, Pozzi collection, Turkey

An Iznik polychrome pottery dish with stylised cloud and cintamani design, Turkey, circa 1580-85. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 GBP. Lot Sold 22,500 GBP. Photo: Sotheby’s

of deep round form with a slightly bracketed everted rim, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue, viridian green, relief red and black outlines with an abstracted cloud and cintamani pattern in the centre and scrolling cloudbands on the rim, foliate motifs on underside, old collection label to underside, 31cm. diam.

PROVENANCE: Ex-Pozzi collection
Ex-Jacques Soustiel collection

Notes: dish with a similar abstract design composed of stylised clouds interspersed with cintamani motifs and a scrolling cloudband border is in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Museum, Lisbon, inv. no.2240.

Sotheby’s. Arts of the Islamic World, Londres | 08 oct. 2014, 10:30 AM