Iznik Dish

A polychrome Iznik dish with a rock and wave rim and well decorated with carnations blooming from a tuft of grass, surrounding a mandorla-shaped rosette. Dishes like this dated to c. 1570–1580. Two such examples are held in the Musée national de la Renaissance at Château Écouen (nos E.Cl.8137 and E.Cl.8234) dated to ca. 1580 and ca. 1570 respectively. Another similar example is pictured in Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, and dated to c. 1575—1580.1 Another similar example is held in the Louvre, Paris (no. AD 3528) and dated to ca. 1575—1580. 

[1] Yanni Petsopoulos (ed.) Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey. London: Alexandria Press, 1989, p. 232, cat. 417.