dish

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Object Type
Museum number: G.25
Description: Dish, made of polychrome glazed pottery. The dish has a deep cavetto rising to a flattened narrow rim with a painted bracket-lobed border, supported on a low cut-down foot-ring with a central unglazed spot to the base. It is painted in tones of cobalt blue, pale green and manganese outlined in greenish black with a central bracket. Lobed medallion enclosing a composite lotus and rosette scroll issuing from a plumose foliate tuft with cloud-band appendages. The rim has a wave and rock scroll with green triglyphs and the cavetto features clasped bunches of flowers repeated on the back.
School/style: Damascus Style; Iznik
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1550-1555 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Iznik
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 18.10 centimetres (foot); Diameter: 31.90 centimetres (rim); Height: 7.90 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Atasoy & Raby 1989 / Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey (fig.207); Godman 1901 / The Godman collection of Oriental and Spanish pottery and glass, 1865-1900 (38)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Pierced together from fragments and with some make-up. Rim with slight chips. Foot drilled twice for suspension. Central unglazed spot on the underside has a slight reddish clay residue possibly from a spur?
Subjects: leaf; lotus
Associated names
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1983
Department: Middle East
Registration number: G.25
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: Godman 25; Miscellaneous number: Godman 38 (on label, since removed)

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