Dish
Lund, Sweden
Museum of Cultural History
Hegira first half of the 11th century / AD first half of the 17th century
KM 14.261
Ceramic; underglaze painted.
Diameter 26.5 cm
Ottoman
Iznik, Turkey.
The polychrome underglaze painted dish with a sloping rim and a deep well presents a black-outlined figure of a woman on a white background. The woman wears a long green, belted dress, a blouse with blue sleeves, white trousers and a green hat. Her shoes and the flower that she holds in her right hand are of thick pale red. Flowers on thin curved stems fill the area around the woman. The rim shows a standardised Chinese motif of waves and rocks. On the back the dish is painted with green and blue ornaments.
Figurative depictions on Iznik ceramics were inspired by the popular imagery of miniature costume albums, many of which were produced for sale to Europeans from the beginning of the AH 11th century / AD 17th century.
Polychrome painted dish with a deep well presenting a female figure on a white background. The area around the woman is filled with flowers. Figurative depictions on Iznik ceramics were inspired by the popular imagery of miniature costume albums.
The object was dated according to its decoration. Figurative depictions occurred in great number on Iznik ceramics from the beginning of the 11th / 17th century. They were inspired by single-figure costume studies such as the Album of Sultan Ahmed I (r. 1011–25 / 1603–17) and its popular copies.
Bought in 1904 from the collector and art dealer I. G. Fenton, London.
From the wave and rock pattern on the rim and from the depicted human figure, which was a popular motif of Iznik ceramics.
Atasoy, N. and Raby, J., Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989.
Carswell, J., Iznik Pottery, London, 1998.
Kulturens Årsbok 2004. Mellanöstern Här, 56–7.
Müller-Wiener, M., Türkisch-Osmanische Keramik, Traunstein, 2004.
Friederike Voigt (partially based on information provided by the Museum of Cultural History in Lund). "Dish" in Discover Islamic Art, Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;se;Mus01_A;38;en
MWNF Working Number: SE 40
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