Jug
1740-1745 (made)
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| Place of origin |
A pottery industry was well-established in Kütahya by the 17th century: there are references to 'cup makers' of Kütahya in 1608. In 1715 a French merchant, Paul Lucas, based in Istanbul sent to France a dozen coffee cups and saucers, bowls, two rosewater bottles, two salts and two writing sets. The decoration and palette is stylistically similar to a documentary basin in the San Lazzaro Armenian monastery in Venice. The basin is inscribed with a date in the Armenian calender for 1193 or 1744 AD. Yolande Crowe has linked the source of this type of exotic decoration to colourful contemporary Indian painted and printed cottons known as "chintz", made on the Coromandel coast.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Fritware, polychrome painted, glazed |
| Brief description | Jug, fritware, polychrome painted with figures and foliage in the Sivaz style, Turkey (Kütahya), 1740-1745. |
| Physical description | Jug, fritware, painted in colours on a white slip and covered with a clear glaze. Globular body, with a cylindrical neck with a small projecting lip, and a small boss on either side of the mouth, and loop handle with an attachment for a hinged cover. On the front of the body is a figure of a man wearing a large turban. The remaining surface is painted with conventional flowers and foliage with fishes in the interspaces, in red, blue, green, yellow and manganese-purple, outlined in olive-green. |
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| Production | register |
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| Summary | A pottery industry was well-established in Kütahya by the 17th century: there are references to 'cup makers' of Kütahya in 1608. In 1715 a French merchant, Paul Lucas, based in Istanbul sent to France a dozen coffee cups and saucers, bowls, two rosewater bottles, two salts and two writing sets. The decoration and palette is stylistically similar to a documentary basin in the San Lazzaro Armenian monastery in Venice. The basin is inscribed with a date in the Armenian calender for 1193 or 1744 AD. Yolande Crowe has linked the source of this type of exotic decoration to colourful contemporary Indian painted and printed cottons known as "chintz", made on the Coromandel coast. |
| Bibliographic reference | The dated basin is published in Yolande Crowe 'A Kütahya bowl with lid in the Walters Art Museum' in A Curator's Choice: Essays in Honor of Hiram W. Woodward, Jr., Journal of the Walters Art Museum', (2006-2007) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 566-1905 |
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| Record created | March 24, 2009 |
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