dish
- Museum number
- 1878,1230.524
- Description
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Dish, made of polychrome glazed pottery. The dish has a rounded well and wide flattened rim on a broad foot-ring which has been almost completely ground down. It is painted in vivid tones of cobalt blue with a small central roundel fringed with dots enclosing a bunch of flowers. Beyond the plain cavetto, further bunches of flowers feature around the rim in oval contoured panels separated by small flowerheads. The double line borders are repeated on the underside.
- Production date
- 1530-1540 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 7.70 centimetres (foot)
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Diameter: 26.50 centimetres
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Height: 4.90 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Minor rim chips and glaze discoloured turquoise on the base, with some local brown staining.
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1878,1230.524
