AN IZNIK-STYLE DAMASCUS POTTERY DISH
Ottoman Syria, 17th - 18th century

Of typical rounded shape, resting on a short circular foot, with a gently everted, flattened rim, painted in manganese purple, copper green, turquoise, cobalt blue and black against white ground, the interior decorated with a small turquoise carnation and three rosette stems with blue centres and manganese purple petals, all within a lobed cartouche, surrounded by stylised floral and geometric motifs on a blue ground framed by black borders, the roundels reminiscent of the Iznik cintamani motif, to the rim a band of single leaf stems and small buds, alternating with cintamani roundels, the exterior with blue rosettes alternating floral stems, 27cm diam.