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Pitcher
Ottoman period
about 1640
Object Place: Turkey
Medium/Technique
Fritware, painted over white slip under a transparent glaze.
Dimensions
Height x width: 26 x 15 cm (10 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of George Washington Wales
Accession Number85.261
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionA pitcher, or handled bottle with flaring neck. The outside of the jug is divided into three decorative registers by thick black lines. The neck shows half-flower forms with raised red centers depending from an upper border. Between and below these are small, trilobed, blue leaf figures. Below the double black lines, at a discontinuity in the neck, the body of the jug shows a rather crude assymmetrical bouquet and leafy tuft, flanked by a pair of incurving carnation stems with a curling broken rose stem behind each. Below two separated black concentric lines, the foot of the jug bears a sequence of simple geometric forms in turquoise and blue. The rolled handle is decorated with strokes of black.
InscriptionsPainted: P4493
ProvenanceBought for 35 lire.