Bottle

The bottle has a tall narrow neck, pyriform body and ring foot. It is made of white paste covered with white slip and decorated under transparent glaze in cobalt blue, turquoise and olive green. The composition covering the body and neck consists of scrolling branches bearing rosettes, stylised composite blossoms and lanceolate leaves. At the base of the body is a cobalt blue border decorated with çintemani motifs and white tulips arranged alternately. Around the foot is a zigzag band and around the shoulder is an angular interlace border in blue and black. Beneath the pale turquoise collar around the neck are pendants containing spots decorated alternately in cobalt blue and turquoise. At the rim is a narrow scrollwork band.
References: Christie’s 2000: Ottoman and Orientalists, London, 21 June 2000, p.46, no.42; Bilgi, H., b: Reunited after centuries, Works of art restored to Turkey by the Sadberk Hanım Museum, Istanbul 2005, p.46, no.13; Bilgi, H., Dance of Fire, İznik Tiles and Ceramics in the Sadberk Hanım Museum and Ömer M. Koç Collections, Sadberk Hanım Museum Publication, Istanbul 2009, pp. 104-107.