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Dish with cloud motifs and flowerheads
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Plate
Dish with cloud motifs and flowerheads
Ottoman period
1575–1600
Object Place: Iznik, Turkey
Medium/Technique
Fritware, painted over white slip under a clear glaze
Dimensions
Height: 5.7 cm (2 1/4 in.) x Diameter: 30 cm (11 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of George Washington Wales
Accession Number85.479
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionCenter with wavy paired stripes in red forming series of squares within which are conventionalized flowers in dark blue with green centers; deep, wide, sloping rim decorated with dark blue "wave and rock" scrolls; underside of rim has band of conventionalized dark blue flowers.
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)