Details
The dish with rounded sides on a low foot, the cover rising in two stepped domes with lower skirt and applied brass flower finial, painted with panels of polychrome floral bouquets on a gilt-decorated green enamel ground, the underside and interior plain white enamel
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high; 612 in. (16.5 cm.) diameter

Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 17 October 1997, lot 19.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
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Lot Essay

For a brief introduction to Süleymaniye ware, together with an illustration of various examples, see Hülya Yilmaz and Sebnem Akalin, Sadberk Hanim Museum, Istanbul, 1995, pp.102-3. A similar green enamel dish and cover was sold Christie's London, 10 Oct 2006, lot 76.

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