Jakabffy Imre szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 13. (Budapest, 1971)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Report on the Activities of the Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1969 and 1970

find die prototype of this lotus flower pattern on a large celadon dish made a little earlier in the collection of the Topkapi Serayi Müzesi.

1 On this the small circles of the fruit are placed among the petals and the leaves are minutely engraved in a solid order. Another dish, in duodecimal shape, also in the Topkapu Seray

2 shows some affinity with cur piece. On the inside rim of this we find also the variation of two kinds of floral patterns. But here the inside decoration is different from ours, it is a kind of geometric, divided into small squares with irregular circles inside. We can state after this comparison that the decoration of the bottom and the rim could be separated and each of it combined with another pattern. Between the foot-ring and the center a large ring is left unglazcd. During the firing the glaze of the dish in this part adhered to the stand or saggar and also in some places ran into bumps. The bumps were chopped off afterwards. In the center there is a Turkish name incised in glaze: Mohammed Efendi (for the reading my thanks are due to my colleague László Ferenczy). According to the writing, this could be dated to the 19th century.

3 T. II. 1 E, Zimmermann, Altchinesischc Porzelanne im Alten Serai. Meisterwerke der türkischen Museen zu Konstantinopel. Bd. II. Walter de Gruyter and Co. Berlin u. Leipzig, 1930. T. 16. 2 Idem, T. 17. 3 Even in the collection of the Topkapu Seray one finds a 19th century owner's name: Silahdar Ali Pasa. F. A. Pope, Fourteenth century blue-and-white. A group of Chinese porcelains in the Topkapi Serayi Müzesi, Istanbul. Freer Gallery of Art Occasional Papers, vol. 2, nr. 1. Washington, 1952. p. 19.