Bidspirit auction | Armenian Pottery Box - Jerusalem,

Armenian Pottery Box - Jerusalem, Palestine - Rounded box decorated with geometric patterns.Turquoise. Armenian ceramics. Painted and glazed clay. Marked at the bottom. Apparently, made by the workshop of David Ohanesian. 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 17 cm. Good condition, wear. * All lots in this auction are located in South Carolina.