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

Plate

ca.1580-85 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of pale buff-coloured fritware, painted in coloursand covered with a clear glaze. The middle is decorated with globular floral devices, tulips, lilies and a long serrated leaf outlined in dark olive-green with details in red and green, in reserve on a dark blue ground. The narrow rim is encircled by a border of guilloche pattern. The underside is painted with trefoils alternating with snail-shells.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted, glazed
Brief description
Plate, fritware, painted in colours with tulips and saz leaves on a blue ground, Turkey (Iznik), ca.1580-85.
Physical description
Plate of pale buff-coloured fritware, painted in coloursand covered with a clear glaze. The middle is decorated with globular floral devices, tulips, lilies and a long serrated leaf outlined in dark olive-green with details in red and green, in reserve on a dark blue ground. The narrow rim is encircled by a border of guilloche pattern. The underside is painted with trefoils alternating with snail-shells.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 25.4cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Production
register
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.2036-1910

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Record createdMarch 30, 2009
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