Dish
ca. 1555-1560 (made)
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This dish is one of a group of similar wares that may be the work of a potter dubbed the 'Master of the Hyacinths'. He was associated with the ceramics produced in the kilns of Iznik, a town in north-west Anatolia.
Motifs like the hyacinths and the jagged saz leaves shown here recall the designs on earlier Iznik ceramics. The treatment and spacing, however, looks forward to the Iznik ceramics made in the 1560s and 1570s.
Iznik has given its name to some of the most accomplished ceramics produced in the Islamic Middle East. In the mid 15th century, potters there specialised in modest earthenware imitations of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain. But in the 1460s or 1470s, under the patronage of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror, they began to manufacture bowls, dishes and other pieces of fritware that were elegant in shape and decoration. These wares were often very large.
Motifs like the hyacinths and the jagged saz leaves shown here recall the designs on earlier Iznik ceramics. The treatment and spacing, however, looks forward to the Iznik ceramics made in the 1560s and 1570s.
Iznik has given its name to some of the most accomplished ceramics produced in the Islamic Middle East. In the mid 15th century, potters there specialised in modest earthenware imitations of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain. But in the 1460s or 1470s, under the patronage of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror, they began to manufacture bowls, dishes and other pieces of fritware that were elegant in shape and decoration. These wares were often very large.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted, glazed |
| Brief description | Dish, fritware, painted in colours with symmetrical spray of three large hyacinths, Turkey (Iznik), ca. 1555-60. |
| Physical description | Dish, flat-bottomed with a wide and deep bowl, and slightly scalloped rim, white with painted colours. Lip is decorated on top surface with border of blue scrolls and dark green spirals and dashes. Bowl interior has image of spray of leaves and flowers, three large (hyacinths?) and some bell-like on long stalks, in dark blue, light blue, mauve and dark green. Dish exterior is decorated with sprigs of flowers. |
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| Gallery label | DISH
White earthenware painted in underglaze colours.
TURKISH (ISNIK); about 1520-50
Salting Bequest.(Old gallery label) |
| Credit line | Salting Bequest |
| Summary | This dish is one of a group of similar wares that may be the work of a potter dubbed the 'Master of the Hyacinths'. He was associated with the ceramics produced in the kilns of Iznik, a town in north-west Anatolia. Motifs like the hyacinths and the jagged saz leaves shown here recall the designs on earlier Iznik ceramics. The treatment and spacing, however, looks forward to the Iznik ceramics made in the 1560s and 1570s. Iznik has given its name to some of the most accomplished ceramics produced in the Islamic Middle East. In the mid 15th century, potters there specialised in modest earthenware imitations of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain. But in the 1460s or 1470s, under the patronage of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror, they began to manufacture bowls, dishes and other pieces of fritware that were elegant in shape and decoration. These wares were often very large. |
| Bibliographic reference | Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey (London: Alexandria Press, 1989), fig. 260, p. 141. |
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| Accession number | C.1996-1910 |
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| Record created | April 19, 2000 |
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