Bowl
ca. 1530-1540 (made)
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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
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| 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. |
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| Gallery label | Bowl.
Found in excavating the foundation of the new Post Office in Constantinople.
TURKISH (ISNIK); about 1520-30.
790-1905(1954-2005) |
| Object history | Found in excavating the foundations of a new post office at Sirkeci. |
| Production | register |
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| 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 created | March 24, 2009 |
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