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

Dish

ca. 1545 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Iznik (made)

This dish is an example of how the potters of Iznik, north-west Anatolia, expanded their colour palette in the 1530s. They added a rich green colour to their shades of blue and white and exploited this new colour in their designs. As if to celebrate, they created compositions of lush, spreading trees, which expand from the central area of this dish up the sides and right out to the rim.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Islam
Access_to_Images 2003
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted in cobalt, turquoise and green, glazed
Fritware
Underglazing
Brief description
Deep white dish with large bushy flowers in green, blue and turquoise, Turkey (Iznik), ca. 1545.
Physical description
Deep white dish with large bushy flowers in green, blue and turquoise, most growing on a single thick stalk which begins at the bottom center of the composition. Rim is slightly foliated.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 37cm
Styles
Iznik
Ottoman
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 an example of how the potters of Iznik, north-west Anatolia, expanded their colour palette in the 1530s. They added a rich green colour to their shades of blue and white and exploited this new colour in their designs. As if to celebrate, they created compositions of lush, spreading trees, which expand from the central area of this dish up the sides and right out to the rim.
Bibliographic references
  • Lane, Arthur. Later Islamic Pottery. London: Faber and Faber, 1957. 133p., ill. Pages 53-6, colour plate B
  • Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey (London: Alexandria Press, 1989), fig. 343 (color).
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
C.1995-1910

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Record createdNovember 18, 2003
Record URL
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