Dish

Ceramic

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Drexel Founding Collection

Name/Title

Dish

Entry/Object ID

1257

Acquisition

Accession

1891.001

Source or Donor

Anthony J. Drexel, Philadelphia

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Anthony J. Drexel

Made/Created

Artist

Unidentified

Place

City

Iznik

State/Province

Bursa

Country

Turkey

Region

Middle East

Continent

Asia

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

Diam, Height: 11 5/8x2 in

Height

2 in

Diameter

11-5/8 in

Material

Earthenware, tin glaze with in-glaze decoration, cobalt, armenian bole

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

This dish is an example of Iznik pottery of the third style, c. 1550, which incorporated the addition of sealing-wax red.

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

This dish is an example of underglaze decorated earthenware produced in the famous kiln town of Iznik. The sealing-wax red color started to be incorporated in the decoration of the Iznik pottery from c.1550 onwards.

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

These ceramics were made around the height of the Ottoman Empire; in the town of Iznik which is famous for their pottery. The Ottoman court admired Chinese porcelain but was unable to create it themselves so the ceramics of Iznik adapted by making fritware, a low-fired ceramic comprising of mainly silica and glass.