Further images
Of round form with palmette shaped reserves and central chrysanthemum, the back outside wall covered with a cafe au lait glaze.
Literature
The design is based on a 16th century Iznik design for a similar example in the Wallace Collection where this motif is used in the border see William Robinson:'And a Peacock in a Saz Tree', Apollo, September 1989, vol.CXXX, no.331, pp.166ff. and a penbox in the Louvre Museum, Paris (Atil, Esin.: The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C., 1987, pl.193, p.268). The same motif is used as the major feature of tiles, again enclosing a blue palmette such as the group in the Victoria and Albert Museum, inv.no.C2005-1910. See also Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, volume 111, by Regina Krahl and John Ayers, plates 2059 through to 2082 page 980 for similar motifs.
