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Deep plate
Ottoman period
about 1630
Object Place: Iznik, Turkey
Medium/Technique
Fritware with white slip, painted in turquoise, blue and raised red and covered with a transparent glaze.
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 4.5 x 30 cm (1 3/4 x 11 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of George Washington Wales
Accession Number03.160
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionA large Iznik plate whose exterior decoration comprises eight cursory figures derived from the “cintamani” tradition: a closed crescent, splashed with turquoise, and a group of three circles forming a domed figure in blue.
The face of the plate is divided by black lines into a border on the flat rim and a floral bouquet in the cavetto and well, all using the same “Rhodian” color scheme of black, turquoise, blue and raised red. It shows a blue flower with a red center, alternating with a two-leafed plant in profile.
The bouquet of varied flowers in the well spring largely from a leafy tuft, while a large vertical saz leaf, in turquoise and blue with a heavy black line, is superimposed over it.
The face of the plate is divided by black lines into a border on the flat rim and a floral bouquet in the cavetto and well, all using the same “Rhodian” color scheme of black, turquoise, blue and raised red. It shows a blue flower with a red center, alternating with a two-leafed plant in profile.
The bouquet of varied flowers in the well spring largely from a leafy tuft, while a large vertical saz leaf, in turquoise and blue with a heavy black line, is superimposed over it.
InscriptionsOld WALES label: Rhodian 1046 with initials LM, probably those of the cataloguer.