Jug
1560-90 (made)
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The sprays of flowers have been skilfully adapted to the jug's rounded shape.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted, glazed |
| Brief description | Jug, fritware, polychrome painted with formal flower sprays, Turkey, Iznik, 1560-90 |
| Physical description | Jug, fritware, of bulbous pear-shape with flared neck and loop handle, covered in white slip, polychrome painted with symetrical swaying wildflowers, tulips in red, blue and green foliage, symmetrically arranged with arabesques, the neck is encircled with a border of cable pattern and a band of foliage. |
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| Gallery label | TURKISH (ISNIK) ; second half of the 16th century.
Salting Bequest.
C.1989-1910.(1954-2005) |
| Credit line | Salting Bequest |
| Historical context | Formerly in the collection of Louis Huth (1821-1905), Posingworth Manor, Waldron, East Sussex, a British art collector, dealer and patron of the Aesthetic movement. In the Huth Sale at Christie's London, May 17, 1905, lot 84 £52.10s. |
| Summary | The sprays of flowers have been skilfully adapted to the jug's rounded shape. |
| Bibliographic reference | Wallis, Henry Illustrated catalogue of specimens of Persian and Arab art : exhibited in 1885, London : Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1885
No.365, plate 13. |
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| Accession number | C.1989-1910 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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