Dish

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Description:

Dish, made of polychrome underglaze pottery. The dish has a straight sloping rim and rests on a tapering ground-down foot-ring. It is painted in cobalt blue, apple green and thick pinkish bole-red outlined in greyish black with spotted tulips and curved carnation sprays with snapped stems between prunus blossom and small cloud fragments. The rim with a continuous undulating half-palmette scroll on a raised pinkish red ground. The back with dotted pods between paired leaves.

Object type:

dish

Museum number:

1878,1230.497

School/style:

Iznik

Culture/period:

Ottoman dynasty

Date:

1570-1600 (circa)

Production place:

Made in: Iznik

Materials:

pottery

Technique:

glazed, underglazed

Dimensions:

Height: 5.50 cm Diameter: 31.00 cm Diameter: 16.40 cm (foot)

Location:

34

Acquisition names:

Bequeathed by: John Henderson

Acquisition date:

1878