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Dish with flowering plants
Plate
Dish with flowering plants
Ottoman period
1575–1600
Object Place: Iznik, Turkey
Medium/Technique
Fritware, painted over white slip under a clear glaze
Dimensions
Height: 07.1 cm (2 13/16 in.) x diameter: 29.3 cm (11 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of George Washington Wales
Accession Number85.478
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionCenter with seven groups of conventionalized plants, each with seven flowers, in dull red, blue and green. Deep, wide rim with dull blue "wave and rock" scrolls and green "blades"; scalloped edge.
ProvenancePurchased in London by George Washington Wales (b. 1815 - d. 1896), Boston; 1885, gift of George Washington Wales to the MFA. (Accession date: October 13, 1885)