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Dish with three-domed church and Greek inscription
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Turkey › Marmara Bölgesi (Marmara) Region › Iznik (probable place of creation)The Byzantine World › Nicaea (inscribed on object)
- Date
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1660 - 1670
Ottoman Period (1281 - 1924)
- Material and technique
- fritware, with underglaze painting in green, turquoise, black, and red
- Dimensions
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5.5 cm (height)
25.5 cm (diameter)
at foot 12.8 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.1451
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 18 July-13 September 1981, and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981, Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition, Deborah Willis, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), no. 389 on p. 133, illus. p. 133
Atasoy, Nurhan, and Julian Raby, Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, ed. Yanni Petsopoulos (London: Alexandria Press in association with Laurence King, 1994), no. 654, illus. p. 283 fig. 654
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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- currently in research collection
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