Dish

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Description:

Dish, made of polychrome glazed pottery. The dish has a flattened bracket-lobed rim and stands on a tapering ground-down foot-ring with a central unglazed spot. It is painted in cobalt blue, turquoise, pale manganese and grey-green outlined in black with stems of tulips, hyacinths and rosettes, one with a cloud-scroll centre, all issuing from a leafy tuft and enclosed within a wave and rock border. The underside with triple tulip bouquets alternating with single rosettes.

Object type:

dish

Museum number:

G.42

School/style:

Iznik

Culture/period:

Ottoman dynasty

Date:

16thC

Production place:

Made in: Iznik

Materials:

pottery

Technique:

painted, glazed

Dimensions:

Height: 7.20 cm Diameter: 39.00 cm (rim) Diameter: 20.60 cm (foot)

Location:

35

Exhibition history:

Exhibited: 2009 11 Dec-2010 10 May, Madrid, Canal de Isabel II, Treasures of the World’s Cultures 2009 1 May-20 Sep, Victoria, Royal BC Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures

Subjects:

blossom

Acquisition names:

Bequeathed by: Miss Edith Godman

Acquisition date:

1983