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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Bowl

ca. 1545-50 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Hemispherical bowl of buff-coloured fritware, painted in colours and covered with a clear glaze. The greater part of the surface, both inside and outside, is covered with fine spiral stems studded with small flowers in olive-green, and with arabesque devices in dark blue and turquoise-blue at the points at which the stems branch off from one another. An undecorated band encircles a central medallion, which is bordered with blue cresting, and the lower part of the outside. The nethermost position, above the line at which a high foot is missing, is painted with a narrow border of wavy stems and flowers edged with cresting in blue.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted in green and blue, glazed
Brief description
Large bowl on high foot, fritware, painted in colours with spiral designs, Turkey (Iznik), c.1545-50.
Physical description
Hemispherical bowl of buff-coloured fritware, painted in colours and covered with a clear glaze. The greater part of the surface, both inside and outside, is covered with fine spiral stems studded with small flowers in olive-green, and with arabesque devices in dark blue and turquoise-blue at the points at which the stems branch off from one another. An undecorated band encircles a central medallion, which is bordered with blue cresting, and the lower part of the outside. The nethermost position, above the line at which a high foot is missing, is painted with a narrow border of wavy stems and flowers edged with cresting in blue.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.1cm
  • Diameter: 44.2cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Formerly in the collection of Mr Louis Huth. Christie's sale 1905, Lot 90. Compare with 243-1876.
Production
register
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Atasoy, Nurhan and Raby, Julian. Iznik: The pottery of Ottoman Turkey. London : Alexandria Press, 1989. Pl. 324.
  • Wallis, Henry Illustrated catalogue of specimens of Persian and Arab art : exhibited in 1885, London : Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1885 538
Collection
Accession number
C.1980-1910

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Record createdMarch 27, 2009
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