Dish

Description

Circular plate or dish with shallow wall, curved sides and everted scalloped rim, of stonepaste fritware with underglaze pigment and slip decoration of naturalistic flowers including red carnations and roses: Turkey, Iznik, 956 - 982 AH / 1570 - 1575 AD

Museum reference

A.1883.18.4

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Dish, Plate

Production information

Iznik, Turkey, West Asia

Date

1570 - 1575
956 - 982 AH

Style / Culture

Iznik

Materials

Stonepaste fritware, Glaze, Slip

Physical description

Fritware (stonepaste), blue, green, black underglaze pigment, bole red underglaze slip, clear glaze

Associations

Kara Memi

Exhibitions

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

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

References

RABY, J. & ATASOY, N., Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London 1989, pp. 222-230, fig. 397 [For a closely related piece and a discussion of this Iznik type]

Links to other web pages

MWNF

On display

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