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Candlestick with tulip blossoms
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Turkey › Marmara Bölgesi (Marmara) Region › Iznik (probable place of creation)
- Date
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c. 1560
Ottoman Period (1281 - 1924)
- Material and technique
- fritware, with polychrome underglaze painting
- Dimensions
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19 cm (height)
12.7 cm max. (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
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container › holder › candle-holder › candlestick,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1899.
- Accession no.
- EAX.3276
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Further reading
Vickers, Michael, Oliver Impey, and James Allan, From Silver to Ceramic: The Potter's Debt to Metalwork in the Graeco-Roman, Oriental and Islamic Worlds (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1986), pl. 79
Atasoy, Nurhan, and Julian Raby, Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, ed. Yanni Petsopoulos (London: Alexandria Press in association with Laurence King, 1994), no. 674, fig. 674
Vanke, Francesca, ‘The Contribution of C. D. E. Fortnum to the Historiography and Collecting of Islamic Ceramics’, Journal of the History of Collections, 11/2, (1999), p. 227, figs 5-6
Glossary (2)
fritware, underglaze painting
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fritware
Ceramic material composed of ground quartz and small quantities of clay and finely ground frit (frit is obtained by pouring molten glass into water).
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underglaze painting
Painting applied to ceramic material before a transparent, or monochrome or coloured glaze for Islamic objects, is applied. The technique was initially developed in China.
Location
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First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East
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First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East
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