Dish

ca. 1585-1600 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of glazed greyish fritware, and painted with a green medallion containing a lion, dog and stag in white, and the intervening spaces being filled in with red and blue ornament devices. The rim is decorated with groups of olive-green spirals on a blue ground.

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted, glazed
Brief description
Dish, fritware, painted in colours with tulips, carnatiosn and saz leaves, Turkey, Iznik, ca.1585-1600
Physical description
Dish of glazed greyish fritware, and painted with a green medallion containing a lion, dog and stag in white, and the intervening spaces being filled in with red and blue ornament devices. The rim is decorated with groups of olive-green spirals on a blue ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 29.8cm
Object history
Purchased in Istanbul in 1897 from Mrs Alice Whitaker, daughter and heir of William Henry Wrench (1836-96). Wrench was British consul in the city when he died, and he had formed a significant collection of Ottoman and Iranian objects while in the consular service. For images of how Wrench displayed his collection in his home in the Pera (Beyoğlu) district of the city, see V&A: PH.331 to 334-1892.
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Collection
Accession number
343-1897

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Record createdMarch 11, 2009
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