dish
- Museum number
- 1878,1230.530
- Description
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Dish, made of green (sage), blue, purple glazed pottery. The dish, which has a flattened asymmetrically lobed rim, rests on a low tapering ground-down foot-ring with a central unglazed spot. It is painted in tones of cobalt, turquoise, grey-green and washy manganese outlined in black with composite lotuses, curved serrated leaves and tulip stems filling the centre and cavetto. The rim has bunches of marguerites between grey-green leaves reserved on a brushed cobalt ground with bracket-lobed edges. The back with triple tulip bouquets between single rosettes beneath a blue bracket-lobed line.
- Production date
- 1540-1550 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 20.70 centimetres (foot)
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Diameter: 39.60 centimetres
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Height: 7 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Published as OA17 in a British Museum slide set entitled 'The Turkish Pottery of Iznik' and with a commentary by R. H. Pinder-Wilson (London 1975).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Minor glaze flakes to inner and outer rim. Underside with quite deep pitting in the glaze and local brown staining.
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1878,1230.530
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: OA17 (BM slide set number)
