AN IZNIK POTTERY SAUCER WITH TULIPS, ROSETTES, AND BLUE HYACINTHS
Ottoman Turkey, ca. 1560 - 1580

Of shallow rounded shape, resting on a rubbed circular foot, with a sloping rim, the milky white interior painted in cobalt blue, bole red, copper green, and black outlines, featuring a central roundel with a rosette irradiating foliate sprays against a green ground, the rim decorated with a traditional floral repertoire in Iznik ceramics repeating blue tulips, red rosettes, and blue hyacinths, the exterior plain, the base marked with a black numeral '60 320' and old Christie's London inventory stickers and barcodes referring to an auction on 25 April 2013, 20.2cm diam.