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

Jar

ca. 1560 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Small jar of fritware, 'hokka', painted and covered with a clear glaze. Decorated in an unusual combination of red and the Tugrakes spiral style pattern. Pear-shaped body with a nearly cylindrical neck. Painted with yellow flowers on blue wavy stems amid blue scrolls in horizontal bands. Round the top of the neck is a border of spirals.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted, glazed
Brief description
Small jar ('hokka'), fritware, painted in colours with fine scroll work, Turkey (Iznik), ca. 1560.
Physical description
Small jar of fritware, 'hokka', painted and covered with a clear glaze. Decorated in an unusual combination of red and the Tugrakes spiral style pattern. Pear-shaped body with a nearly cylindrical neck. Painted with yellow flowers on blue wavy stems amid blue scrolls in horizontal bands. Round the top of the neck is a border of spirals.
Dimensions
  • From iznik catalogue height: 10.5cm
  • Conversion diameter: 8.9cm
Gallery label
Vase. Said to have been found in excavaqting the foundation of the NEw POst Offic ein Caonstantinople. TURKISH (ISNIK); about 1550-60.(Old 133G labels)
Credit line
Given by Sir Charles Marling
Object history
Found in excavating the foundations of a new post office in Istanbul.
Production
This illustrates the unusual combination of red with a 'Tugrakes spiral style' pattern and is said to have been excavated in Istanbul, near the 'Golden Horn'
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Atasoy, Nurhan and Raby, Julian. Iznik. The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey. London: Alexandria Press, 1989. p. 55, ill. 46.
Collection
Accession number
C.158-1909

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Record createdDecember 12, 2003
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