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

Dish

ca. 1530-1535 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The decoration on this bowl illustrates an important turning-point in the history of ceramics made in Iznik, north-west Anatolia. In the 1530s, potters there turned away from the tightly organized designs of earlier years and began to decorate their wares freehand. Soon they were executing charming designs in a blue and turquoise palette, like this scene in which a snake creeps up on an unsuspecting bird in a tree.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted in cobalt blue and turquoise, glazed
Brief description
Stonepaste, painted in blue and turquoise, with a snake approaching a bird in a tree. Turkey (Iznik), ca. 1530-35. Salting Bequest.
Physical description
White fritware dish, painted in blue and turquoise. Depicts a snake approaching a bird in a tree.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 34cm
Styles
Gallery label
DISH White earthenware painted in blue and turquoise. TURKISH (ISNIK); first half of 16th century. Salting Collection.(Used until 11/2003)
Credit line
Salting Bequest
Subjects depicted
Summary
The decoration on this bowl illustrates an important turning-point in the history of ceramics made in Iznik, north-west Anatolia. In the 1530s, potters there turned away from the tightly organized designs of earlier years and began to decorate their wares freehand. Soon they were executing charming designs in a blue and turquoise palette, like this scene in which a snake creeps up on an unsuspecting bird in a tree.
Bibliographic references
  • Atil, Esin, The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent. Catalogue of the Exhibition held at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, 25th Jan - 17th May, 1987; The Art Institute of Chicago, 14th June - 7th Sept., 1987; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 4th Oct - 17th Jan., 1988. Washington: The National Gallery of Art and New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1987. ISBN 0-89468-098-6 (paper), 0-8109-1855-2 (cloth). Plate 176, pp. 320-1, illustration p. 254.
  • Öney, Gönül. Türk Cini Sanati/Turkish Tile Art. Istanbul, 1976. 99
  • Miller, Yuri. Chudozestvennaja keramika Turcii. Leningrad, 1972. 85
  • Lane, Arthur, Later Islamic Pottery, London: 1971 (revised edition), plate 30B
  • Lane, Arthur. Later Islamic Pottery. London: Faber and Faber, 1957. 133p., ill. Pages 51-2, plate 30A
  • Lane, A. 'The Ottoman Pottery of Isnik' In: Ars Orientalis, 2, 1957, pp 247-281. Fig. 38
  • Burlington Fine Arts Club. Faience of Persia and the Nearer East London, 1907. No. 10
  • Christie's. Oriental Porcelain, Rhodian and Damascus Ware, Objects of Art and Decorative Furniture. London, 17 and 22 May 1905. No. 244
  • Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey (London: Alexandria Press, 1989), fig. 315 (color).
Collection
Accession number
C.2019-1910

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Record createdNovember 7, 2003
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