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

Dish

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

Dish of light buff glazed fritware painted in colours. Wavy edge with a flat rim, and painted with long curving sprays of hyacinths and rose-like flowers, blue with pale centres and long serrated foliage springing from a single point. Border of leaves alternating with blue and red flowers.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted, glazed
Brief description
Dish, fritware, painted in colours with saz leaves and floral sprays, Iznik, ca. 1560
Physical description
Dish of light buff glazed fritware painted in colours. Wavy edge with a flat rim, and painted with long curving sprays of hyacinths and rose-like flowers, blue with pale centres and long serrated foliage springing from a single point. Border of leaves alternating with blue and red flowers.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 34.9cm
Style
Credit line
Gift of C.H. Campbell, Esq.
Production
register
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Lane, Arthur. Later Islamic Pottery. London: Faber and Faber, 1957. 133p., ill. Pages 56-59, 115, plate 41B
Collection
Accession number
C.263-1921

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Record createdNovember 18, 2003
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