Plate

The plate has an everted floriate rim, deep bowl and ring foot. It is made of white paste covered with white slip, and painted
in cobalt blue under transparent glaze. The decoration is in the mistakenly named “Golden Horn” style developed in the period 1530-1540. Branches with small şowers and leaves curve in tight spirals, forming seven medallions. Around the rim are undulating branches with small şowers and leaves. On the underside is an undulating composition of small stylised composite blossoms and leaves.
References; ÜNAL, İ., “Les Poteries de Faience Appartenant aux Collections de Messieurs Hüseyin Kocabafl et Tevfik Kuyafl”, Atti del Secondo Congresso Internationale di Arte Turca,
Napoli 1965, fig.6; Atasoy, N. - J. Raby, İznik Seramikleri, London 1989, no.309; Sadberk Hanım Museum, Istanbul 1989, p.122;Altun, A., “İznik Tiles and Ceramics”, Turkish Tiles and Ceramics, Sadberk Hanım Museum, Istanbul 1991, p.26, İ.20; Atasoy, N., Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans, Memphis 1992, p.207; Soustiel L.,Osmanlı Seramiklerinin Görkemi XVI.-XIX Yüzyıl: Suna-İnan Kıraç ve Sadberk Hanım Müzesi Koleksiyonlarından, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris 1 Nisan-2 Temmuz 2000, Istanbul 2000. p.58, no.5;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. 66-67.