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Jug with sailing ships
Jug
Jug with sailing ships
Ottoman period
1575–1600
Object Place: Iznik, Turkey
Medium/Technique
Fritware, painted over white slip under a clear glaze
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 21.4 cm (8 7/16 in.) x 13.3 d (5 1/4 in)
Credit Line
Gift of George Washington Wales
Accession Number85.481
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionWhite body decorated with rows of black boats with large blue-striped sails; red and green scalloped spots on ground; blue spots on handle; greenish color inside. From the latter part of the sixteenth century into the seventeenth, Iznik tankards, bottles, dishes, and jugs were often decorated with fleets of dhow-like, lateen-rigged boats, their triangular sails typically sporting jaunty blue stripes. Irregular red and green motifs between the boats on this jug represent islands.
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)