IZNIK POLYCHROME DISH DECORATED WITH A SAILING SHIP - SOLD

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IZNIK POLYCHROME DISH DECORATED WITH A SAILING SHIP – SOLD

Ottoman Empire

Second Half of the 16^th Century

Diameter: 30 cm.

Fritware, underglaze painted in coral red, green, blue and black. Depicting a sailing ship with three masts, in open sea. The rim decorated with stylized wave motifs.

Iznik ceramics decorated with sailing ships are rare. Depicting sailing ships was a novelty for the decorative repertoire of Iznik ceramics. According to Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, the ships depicted on these Iznik dishes are European or lateen-rigged ships (ships with a triangular sail set). See, Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, Thames and Hudson, London, 1989, p. 280. Ships which have always been such a vital part of the commercial life and wealth of the Ottoman Empire, and its capital Istanbul, were lovingly used as enriching motifs in Iznik ceramics and textiles. Please see, Motif from the Sadberk Hanım Museum Collection (written by Turgut Saner, Şebnem Eryavuz and Hülya Bilgi), Sadberk Hanım Museum, Istanbul, 2020, pp. 210-211.

The wave motif or ‘rocks and waves’ surrounding the rim of the present dish is one of the schematic motifs inspired by nature which is found on Yuan period blue and white Chinese porcelain. The earliest examples with wave borders are found on the ceramics in the so-called potters’ style which were produced from around 1525 onwards. For further information please see, Motif from the Sadberk Hanım Museum Collection (written by Turgut Saner, Şebnem Eryavuz and Hülya Bilgi), Sadberk Hanım Museum, Istanbul, 2020, pp. 122-123.

Iznik dishes similarly decorated with sailing ships from the Musée National de la Renaissance have been published in Frédéric Hitzel & Mireille Jacotin’s Iznik – L’Aventure d’Une Collection, Les Céramique Ottomanes du Musée National de la Renaissance, Château d’Écouen, Paris, 2005, pp. 304-305. For a closely related dish in the Ömer Koç Collection, see Hülya Bilgi’s Ateşin Oyunu: Sadberk Hanım Müzesi ve Ömer Koç Koleksiyonlarından İznik Çini ve Seramikleri, Sadberk Hanım Müzesi, İstanbul, 2009, pl. 284.

Provenance

Ex-Angélique Amandry Collection (1925-2021).

Born in 1925, Angélique Amandry was an archaeologist, art dealer and art collector. She was secretary to the École Française in Athens. Between 1949-1969, she lived in Strasbourg. Between 1969 and 1981 she lived in Athens. Then she moved to Paris where she married Pierre Amandry. After moving to Strasbourg she became an art dealer. She donated the profit from her sales to the widows of war veterans. For ten years, the name of her stand was ‘AZ La Decouvérte’. She acquired some of her first phil-Hellenic pieces in this period. On her return to Athens, she thought of organizing an exhibition to celebrate the 150^th anniversary of Greek independence. The exhibition, held in Hilton Athens, was titled ‘Images of French Philhellenism 1820-1840’. Later, she moved to Paris and she published L’Independance Grecque Dans La Faience Francaise Du 19e Siecle in 1982. Later in her life, she continued working as an antique dealer. She died in 2021.

Categories: Ceramics

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