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Deep plate
Turkish (Iznik)
About 1600
Object Place: India
Medium/Technique
Fritware, painted over white slip and covered with a transparent glaze.
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 4 x 25 cm (1 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
The John Pickering Lyman Collection—Gift of Miss Theodora Lyman
Accession Number19.1178
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionA smaller plate, decorated in black and the “Rhodian” palette of blue, turquoise-green and raised red. The underside of the plate is undecorated. On the front, the slightly concave rim is marked off by single and double concentric black lines, and is decorated with a simplified but bold version of the rock and wave pattern, in black with regular incursions of the blue and green used in the well design. The cavetto and well show a symmetrical array of roses and tulips in raised red and a plant with blue flowers, all springing from a tuft of leaves, with an elaborate central (lotus?) flower in all three colors. There are suggestions of a field of objects extending beyond the boundary of the cavetto.
InscriptionsMFA label: 480.15 Lyman
ProvenanceLent by Miss Theodora Lyman, March 1, 1915. The John Pickering Lyman Collection.