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拍品专文
Red-ground dishes, such as that offered here, are extremely rare. This is a particularly fine and large example. The last quarter of the 16th century saw the perfection of the use of the raised bole-red colour that we see employed so masterfully on this dish. The thick red was difficult to control and initial efforts produced mixed results. The tiles produced in around 1561 for the Mosque of Rüstem Pasha contained areas of red which were not fully controlled after firing and therefore lost the intensity of their colour (Walter Denny, The Mosque of Rüstem Pasha and the Environment of Change, New York, 1977). A dish in the Musée National de la Céramique in Sèvres which has a similar design including curved saz leaves is also dated by Walter Denny to circa 1585-90 (Walter B. Denny, Iznik. The Artistry of Ottoman Ceramics, London, 2004, p.118). An impressive dish with decoration of saz leaves on a red ground was sold in these Rooms, 23 April 2015, lot 176.
Our dish was formerly in the Lagonico Collection - originally assembled by Stefanos Lagonikos in Alexandria, Egypt. The Lagonikos were one of many Greek families who settled and became extremely successful in the Egyptian cotton industry and Ottoman financial incentives to foreign investment. As these Greek families grew in wealth, many began collecting art with a small number collecting Islamic art, which was seen as an extension of Hellenism. The private collections of the Greek community in Alexandria would go on to form the core of the important 1925 exhibition Exposition d’art Musulman, only the second great exhibition of Islamic art, which included pieces from the Lagonico collection, including this dish.
Our dish was formerly in the Lagonico Collection - originally assembled by Stefanos Lagonikos in Alexandria, Egypt. The Lagonikos were one of many Greek families who settled and became extremely successful in the Egyptian cotton industry and Ottoman financial incentives to foreign investment. As these Greek families grew in wealth, many began collecting art with a small number collecting Islamic art, which was seen as an extension of Hellenism. The private collections of the Greek community in Alexandria would go on to form the core of the important 1925 exhibition Exposition d’art Musulman, only the second great exhibition of Islamic art, which included pieces from the Lagonico collection, including this dish.