Dish

Description

Circular dish of stonepaste fritware with transparent lustrous alkaline glaze, decorated with underglaze painted design depicting a young man in a green kaftan with a red belt, holding a scroll: Turkey, Iznik, Ottoman, early 11th century AH / early 17th century AD

Museum reference

A.1967.846

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Dish

Production information

Iznik, Turkey, West Asia

Date

Early 17th century
Early 11th century AH

Style / Culture

Ottoman

Materials

Stonepaste fritware, Glaze

Physical description

Stonepaste fritware

Exhibitions

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

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

References

RACKHAM, B., Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica, London 1959, cat. no. 201, p. 47 and plate 87 A.

Türkische Kunst und Kultur aus osmanischer Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Recklinghausen 1985, p. 162 cat. no. 2/44 [For comparable dishes]

RABY, J. and ATASOY, N., Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London 1989, pp. 274-75, figs. 781-82 [For comparable dishes]

Links to other web pages

MWNF

On display

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