Dish
ca. 1560 (made)
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This dish illustrates the unusual an dshort-lived combination of red and purple.
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Materials and techniques | Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted, glazed |
Brief description | Dish, fritware, polychrome painted with saz leaves and other flowers, Turkey (Iznik), ca. 1560 |
Physical description | Dish of fritware, deep, with foliated rim, painted in blue, purple and red on a white ground, with a symmetrical design, composed of overlapping leaves and flowers. The border is decorated with a pattern of spirals, and the back is ornamented with flwoers and sprays. |
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Summary | This dish illustrates the unusual an dshort-lived combination of red and purple. |
Bibliographic reference | Atasoy, Nurhan and Raby, Julian. Iznik. The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey. London: Alexandria Press, 1989, p. 54, ill. 45. |
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Accession number | 274-1893 |
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Record created | December 12, 2003 |
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