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

Dish

ca. 1580 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of pale buff-coloured fritware, painted in colours and covered with a clear glaze. The deep centre is painted within a border of green cresting with curved serrated leaves and sprays of small flowers springing symmetrically from a turf of foliage, outlined in dark olive-green, and with details in red and green, in reserve on a dark blue ground. On the rim is a pattern of olive-green spirals broken by irregular reserves and green foliage. The underside is painted with triple sprays of fruit alternating with snail-shells.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted, glazed
Brief description
Dish, fritware, painted in colours with saz leaves on a deep blue ground, Turkey (Iznik), ca. 1580.
Physical description
Dish of pale buff-coloured fritware, painted in colours and covered with a clear glaze. The deep centre is painted within a border of green cresting with curved serrated leaves and sprays of small flowers springing symmetrically from a turf of foliage, outlined in dark olive-green, and with details in red and green, in reserve on a dark blue ground. On the rim is a pattern of olive-green spirals broken by irregular reserves and green foliage. The underside is painted with triple sprays of fruit alternating with snail-shells.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 26.7cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Production
register
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.2034-1910

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Record createdMarch 30, 2009
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