Jug

Description

Jug of stonepaste fritware with bulbous pear-shaped body resting on a low circular foot ring, covered with blue and green scale patterns separated by split palmate borders and allover textural covering akin to the engraved decoration of contemporary metalwork: Turkey, Iznik, Ottoman, 987 - 992 AH / 1580 - 1585 AD

Museum reference

A.1884.44.25

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Jug

Production information

Iznik, Turkey, West Asia

Date

1580 - 1585
987 - 992 AH

Style / Culture

Ottoman

Materials

Stonepaste fritware

Physical description

Earthenware, glazed

Associations

Castellani, Alessandro, 1823 - 1883

Exhibitions

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

• Treasured: Wonderful Things, Amazing Stories (14 Nov 2008 - 01 Jan 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, figs. 731-733, 743-745 [For closely related pieces]

Türkische Kunst und Kultur aus osmanischer Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Recklinghausen 1985, p. 153 cat. nos. 2/30 and 2/31 [For closely related pieces]

Links to other web pages

MWNF

On display

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