Bowl with Variation of 'Baba Nakkas' Design, ca. 1500–1525

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Bowl with Variation of 'Baba Nakkas' Design, ca. 1500–1525, Attributed to Turkey, Iznik, Stonepaste; painted in light and dark blue under transparent glaze, H. 5 3/16 in. ( cm), Ceramics, Some of the earliest Iznik stonepaste ceramics are distinguished by delicate underglaze painted blue decoration on a white ground. The meandering vine of two toned flowers and the white on blue decoration of this small bowl link it to an early group of ceramics referred to as Baba Nakkas (literally, 'Papa Designer') ware named for an artist employed by the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II

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