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Plate
Ottoman Empire
About 1550
Object Place: Iznik, Turkey
Medium/Technique
Fritware, painted over white slip, and with a transparent glaze.
Dimensions
Diameter: 28.7 cm (11 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
The John Pickering Lyman Collection—Gift of Miss Theodora Lyman
Accession Number19.1194
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionA plate painted in blue over a white ground: the flat rim with a version of the Chinese "rock and wave" border. The cavetto shows six similar floral sprigs, within which is a lobed line, delimiting the well's design of a large spray of "wheatsheaves" and small flowering plants, centered by a large blossom in Hatayi style.
ProvenanceLent by Miss Theodora Lyman, March 1, 1915. The John Pickering Lyman Collection. Made a gift on Sept. 18, 1919.