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Bowl

ca. 1530-1540 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Bowl of grey fritware, painted in blue and covered with a clear glaze. Painted outside with conventional flowers and foliage branching from a continuous wavy stem. Inside on the bottom are flowers and foliage on a spiral stem in a medallion and round the side is a wide band of closely-set leafy stems with flowers.

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, underglaze painted in cobalt blue, glazed
Brief description
Bowl of grey fritware, painted in blue on a white slip and covered with a clear glaze, Iznik, ca. 1530-1540.
Physical description
Bowl of grey fritware, painted in blue and covered with a clear glaze. Painted outside with conventional flowers and foliage branching from a continuous wavy stem. Inside on the bottom are flowers and foliage on a spiral stem in a medallion and round the side is a wide band of closely-set leafy stems with flowers.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.5cm
  • Diameter: 18.3cm
Gallery label
(1954-2005)
Bowl.
Found in excavating the foundation of the new Post Office in Constantinople.
TURKISH (ISNIK); about 1520-30.
790-1905
Object history
Found in excavating the foundations of a new post office at Sirkeci.
Production
register
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Atasoy, Nurhan and Raby, Julian. Iznik: The pottery of Ottoman Turkey. London : Alexandria Press, 1989. pp. 108-109, Pl. 134.
Collection
Accession number
790-1905

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Record createdMarch 24, 2009
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