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Deep plate
Turkish (Iznik)
About 1625
Object Place: India
Medium/Technique
Fritware, painted on white slip and with a transparent glaze.
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 7 x 29 cm (2 3/4 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
The John Pickering Lyman Collection—Gift of Miss Theodora Lyman
Accession Number19.1175
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionA shallow Iznik bowl with footring.The bowl is decorated in the “Rhodian” range of colors. The exterior is decorated in black with eight “Cintamani” motifs; four of three grouped circles accented in blue, and four of spirals, accented in green. Between single and double black lines, the sloping rim of the dish is painted with a bold version of the Chinese “rock and wave” design, using thick and thin black lines and there are repeated inclusions of green and blue into the border. The cavetto and well are filled with an asymmetric bouquet of varied flowers, mostly springing from a leafy tuft, with a central hyacinth inflorescence based on a strong, curving black vertical line.
InscriptionsOld MFA label reads 474.15 Lyman
ProvenanceLent by Miss Theodora Lyman, March 1, 1915. The John Pickering Lyman Collection.