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Dish with tulips and chrysanthemums
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- Associated place
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Asia › Turkey › Marmara Bölgesi (Marmara) Region › Iznik (probable place of creation)
- Date
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1535 - 1545
Ottoman Period (1281 - 1924)
- Material and technique
- fritware, with underglaze painting in blue and turquoise
- Dimensions
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6.2 cm (height)
33.3 cm (diameter)
at foot 17.8 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.1469
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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. 384 on p. 131, illus. p. 131
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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