Bowl cover

Description

Cover or lid for squat elliptic shaped bowl in stonepaste fritware, topped by gilt, copper alloy finial with blue, red and green rossette at its base, with further decoration of blue lily and a red-orange hyazinth and serrated saz leaves: Turkey, Iznik, Ottoman, 10th century AH / late 16th century AD

Museum reference

A.1884.44.26 A

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Bowl cover

Production information

Iznik, Turkey, West Asia

Date

Late 16th century
10th century AH

Style / Culture

Ottoman

Materials

Stonepaste fritware, Copper alloy, Gilt

Physical description

Earthenware, glazed

Associations

Castellani, Alessandro, 1823 - 1883

Exhibitions

• Window on the World (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Discover Islamic Art (01 Dec 2005)
  World Wide Web

References

SCARCE, J., Domestic Culture in the Middle East: an Exploration of the Household Interior, Edinburgh 1996, p. 60

Türkische Kunst und Kultur aus osmanischer Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Recklinghausen 1985, p. 144 cat. no. 2/13 [For related pieces in terms of shape]

RABY, J. & ATASOY, N., Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London 1989, figs. 559, 678, 742 [For related pieces in terms of shape]

CARSWELL, J., Iznik Pottery, London 1998, p. 82 fig. 61 [For related pieces in terms of shape]

Links to other web pages

MWNF

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 3 »
window on the world