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Country of Origin: Ottoman
Empire
JBOC Comments:
Auction Catalogue Description:
Sale Title ART OF THE ISLAMIC AND
INDIAN WORLDS
Location London, King Street Sale Date Apr 04,
2006
Lot Number 99 Sale Number 7218
Creator OTTOMAN SYRIA, 17TH CENTURY
Lot Title A DAMASCUS POTTERY TAZZA
Estimate 6,000 - 8,000 British pounds
Special Notice No VAT will be charged on the
hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to
the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT
inclusive basis.
Lot Description A DAMASCUS POTTERY TAZZA
OTTOMAN SYRIA, 17TH CENTURY
With deep cavetto, sloping cusped rim and on tall
foot, the white interior painted in cobalt-blue,
apple-green, manganese and black under the glaze,
decorated with a single large flowerhead
radiating saz leaves, the interstices with
smaller flowerheads and paired cintamani, the rim
with stylized wave-and-rock motif, the exterior
decorated with two bands of cusped meanders,
slight restoration to rim, otherwise intact
12in. (30.5cm.) diam.
Lot Notes This is a very good and early example
of a vessel made in Damascus in the late
sixteenth century in the potteries created
originally for the creation of tiles (please see
lots 6, 100 and 101A). Its form is directly taken
from the Iznik prototype, a good example of which
is offered as lot 102, but the colouring is
typically Damascus. A Damascus dish of related
design, formerly sold in these Rooms 11 April
1989, lot 288, is in the Khalili Collection (J.
M. Rogers, Empire of the Sultans, Geneva and
London, 1995, no.130, pp.192-3).
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