Iznik Blue and White Pottery ‘Wheatsheaf Style’ Dish

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Iznik Blue and White Pottery ‘Wheatsheaf Style’ Dish

Ottoman Empire
Second half of the 16^th Century
Diameter: 31.5 cm.

Underglaze painted fritware, decorated with central floral rosette surrounded by chinoiserie scrolling foliate springs and lobed medallions containing a pair of flowering plants on dense scrolling ground, the lip with wave and rock design interspersed with scrolls, the underside surrounded by repeated floral motifs, and old French collection label reading: “Panneau 4 no. 98 Collection Darses Paris” and red wax seal marked M.D.

This dish is a rare and unusual example of the blue and white types produced during the second half of the 16th century, which adapted Chinese motifs and united them with more characteristically Ottoman forms. Here, we can see two elements of the 1570s which are the wave motif’ on the rim and the ‘wheatsheaf’’.

The ear of wheat motif is combined with Ming-style tendrils. These are interspersed with densely decorated medallions which replace the peonies. For a comparable Ming bule and white cupstand decorated with similar tendrils please see, Neolithic to Ming. Chinese Objects – The Myron S. Falk Collection, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass., 1957, no. 32.

For comparable Iznik blue and white dishes in the ‘wheatsheaf’ style, see Nurhan Atasoy & Julian Raby. Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, Thames & Hudson, London, 1989, fig. 447 (David Collection, Copenhagen, Inv. No. 27/1978), p. 241 and John Carswell & Mina Moraitou and Melanie Gibson, Iznik Ceramics at the Benaki Museum, Benaki Museum – Gingko, London, 2023, cat. 52, p. 106.

Provenance

-Private collection, London. Acquired before 1967.

-Darses Collection, Paris. Old French collection label reading: “Panneau 4 no. 98 Collection Darses Paris” and red wax seal marked: M.D. M. Darses was a collector of Iznik ceramics who lived in Paris by the end of the 19^th and early 20^th century.

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Iznik Blue and White Pottery ‘Wheatsheaf Style’ Dish

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