AN IZNIK POLYCHROME POTTERY DISH WITH TENT, TURKEY, CIRCA 1600

Figural and domestic imagery such as that depicted on this dish is more unusual than the Iznik dishes of carnations, tulips and saz leaves. However, they began to circulate at the beginning of the seventeenth century when Iznik workshops to Greece increased their expert production at a t.mes when Chinese ceramics saturated the Ottoman market (Carswell 2006, p.106). A comparable Iznik dish, decorated with an underglaze painted house scene is in the Sadberk Hanim Museum, Istanbul (Bilgi 2005, p.90-91).