Plate

The plate has an everted rim, deep bowl and ring foot. The white paste body is covered with white slip and decorated in cobalt blue, green, slightly raised coral red and black outlining under transparent glaze. In the centre is a cypress tree decorated with zigzags şanked by carnations springing from the same root. A border of wave motifs runs around the rim.
On the underside rosettes alternate with double tulips.
References;Christie’s 2005 a: Iznik Pottery: The Vincent Bulent Collection, London 26 April 2005, p.62, no.43; Bilgi, H., b: Reunited after centuries, Works of art restored to Turkey by the Sadberk Hanım Museum, Istanbul 2005, p.54, no.17; 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, p. 112.