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Plate with blue-and-white decoration
Ottoman period
1500–1550
Object Place: Iznik, Turkey
Medium/Technique
Fritware (stonepaste), white slip with blue under transparent glaze
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 4.5 x 28 cm (1 3/4 x 11 in.)
Credit Line
The John Pickering Lyman Collection—Gift of Miss Theodora Lyman
Accession Number19.1197
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionWheel-thrown body; wide, shallow footring, narrow flanged rim. Exterior: warm white ground delimited by four concentric circles; five peony flowers with white centers alternating with five lobed flowers in profile. Interior: simple vine-like border with rumi leaves between single and double lines along the rim; lowest register of the cavetto carries a circle of flame-like leaf forms, inside another double line, in fourfold symmetry; well decorated with floating medallions with domed pendants between them, hanging from areas of ground filled with spiral wave-forms which seem to emerge from under the cavetto, a ground of spirals fills each of the four, lobed, roughly circular medallions, which also contain a posy of three flowers, an eight-petaled flower is in the center
ProvenanceLent by Miss Theodora Lyman, March 1, 1915. The John Pickering Lyman Collection.