"Iznik Siliceous Ceramic Dish Decorated With A Saz Palm, Tulips And Carnations. Seventeenth Century."
Iznik siliceous ceramic dish with full polychrome decoration of an inverted saz palm in blue decorated with rose hips, surrounded by tulips, carnations and bud flowers. On the wing, frieze of half-flowers separated by a sawtooth band. On the reverse, six blue and green motifs.
Ottoman art, 17th century. D. 29.6 cm. Crack visible at 11 a.m.
Origin: former Rubello collection, Switzerland then Paris.