A SMALL IZNIK-STYLE CANTAGALLI POTTERY DISH
Ulisse Cantagalli workshop, Florence, Italy, ca. 1900 – 1915

Of shallow rounded shape, resting on a short circular foot, with an everted and gently splayed rim, painted in cobalt blue, red, and green within black outlines under a transparent glossy glaze on a milky white ground, the interior decorated with typical Ottoman Iznik pottery motifs including intertwined lush floral bouquets of carnations, tulips, rosettes and serrated leaves, rising from a tuft of green and blue grass, the rim alternating blue rosettes with a vegetal stem with green leaves, the exterior with similar blue rosettes and green spiraling roundels, the base with the Cantagalli workshop mark (a singing rooster) and the location ('Italia'), 27cm diam.