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 |