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

Dish

ca. 1580-1600 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of pale buff-coloured fritware, painted in colours and covered with a clear glaze. Circular with a deep middle and narrow rim. In the middle, within a medallion bordered by cresting in green and blue, are a rose, a tulip, and other flowers, and a curved serrated leaf, outlined in dark olive-green with details in blue and green. On the rim is a pattern of close spirals in olive-green broken by irregular reserves and blue and green foliage. On the underside are blue berries in clusters of three, separated by green rosettes.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted, glazed
Brief description
Dish, fritware, painted in colours with tulips and flowers on a red ground, Turkey (Iznik), ca. 1580-1600.
Physical description
Dish of pale buff-coloured fritware, painted in colours and covered with a clear glaze. Circular with a deep middle and narrow rim. In the middle, within a medallion bordered by cresting in green and blue, are a rose, a tulip, and other flowers, and a curved serrated leaf, outlined in dark olive-green with details in blue and green. On the rim is a pattern of close spirals in olive-green broken by irregular reserves and blue and green foliage. On the underside are blue berries in clusters of three, separated by green rosettes.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 34.9cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Production
register
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.2042-1910

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Record createdMarch 30, 2009
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