Bidspirit auction | Armenian Pottery Vase - Jerusalem,

Armenian Pottery Vase - Jerusalem, Palestine - Armenian ceramic vase, decorated with flowers and vegetal patterns. Painted and glazed clay. Marked at the bottom with various stamps. Apparently, made by the workshop of David Ohannessian. Jerusalem, Palestine. Circa the 1920s. The Armenian pottery workshop in Jerusalem was founded in 1919, at the end of WWI, when the British invited the iznik master potter David Ohannessian to help with the restoration of the tiles of the Dome of the rock mosque in Jerusalem. The workshop produced ceramics in the traditional Iznik style. Height: approximately 25 cm. Good condition, chips, hairline at the rim, wear.