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

Dish

late 16th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of whitish-grey fritware, painted in colours on a white slip and covered with a clean glaze. Circular with a narrow rim. In the middle is an ewer surrounded by a coiled stem with conventional flowers and foliage, in blue-green and red outlined in dark olive-green. The rim is painted with a cable pattern. On the underside are triple sprays of berries serrated by rosettes.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted, glazed
Brief description
Dish of whitish-grey fritware, painted in colours on a white slip and covered with a clean glaze, Iznik, late 16th century.
Physical description
Dish of whitish-grey fritware, painted in colours on a white slip and covered with a clean glaze. Circular with a narrow rim. In the middle is an ewer surrounded by a coiled stem with conventional flowers and foliage, in blue-green and red outlined in dark olive-green. The rim is painted with a cable pattern. On the underside are triple sprays of berries serrated by rosettes.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 29.2cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Production
register
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.2022-1910

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Record createdMarch 30, 2009
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