AN IZNIK DISH, OTTOMAN ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1590-1... Lot n° 40

AN IZNIK DISH, OTTOMAN ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1590-1600 underglaze painted fritware, the well decorated with a green ground roundel containing a pair of harpies perched on a candlestick, flanked by leafy sprigs, framed by a lotus border, the lip with wave and scroll band, the underside with drilled rim foot and alternating pomegranate and serpent motifs, framed by foliated line border, 6cm high; 28cm diam. Provenance: Private collection, London. Acquired before 1967. For a dish with a related design in the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, see Atasoy & Raby 1989, fig.547, p.257. See also fig. 544 on the same page for similar harpy figures.