Large Iznik Dish with Floral Decoration from the Reign of Sultan Murad III

Large Iznik Dish with Floral Decoration from the Reign of Sultan Murad III.

Polychrome Iznik Dish Decorated with Red Roses and Blue Saz Leaves.

Ottoman Empire.

Circa 1575-1580.

Diameter: 36 cm.

Fritware, decorated in the ‘saz leaf and rosette’ style in coral red, blue, green, black, with a central rosette surrounded by symmetrically organized blue tulips, red roses and blue saz leaves. The rim decorated with stylized wave motifs.

Besides its exceptional size, the present dish features a very rare design which gathers different floral elements used in the Ottoman court workshop in the 16th century. Iznik dishes uniting such a variety of motifs, including tulips, roses, sazleaves surrounding a central palmette, are rare.

A comparable Iznik dish with floral decoration in the Ex-Adda Collection (Racham Cat. 108) is published in Julian Raby & Nurhan Atasoy’s Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, Alexandria Press, London, 1989, pl. 482. A second comparable Iznik dish with blue saz leaves and floral decoration is in the Gulbenkian Museum, Lizbon. See, Julian Raby & Nurhan Atasoy, Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, Alexandria Press, London, 1989, pl. 697.

Provenance

Private Italian Collection

Price on application

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