AMICA ID:
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MMA_.14.40.727
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Creator Nationality:
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Asian; Anatolian; Turkish
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Attributed to Iznik, Turkey
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Title:
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Dish
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Title Type:
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Object name
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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ca. 1525-30
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Creation Start Date:
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1525
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Creation End Date:
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1530
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Materials and Techniques:
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Underglaze-painted composite body
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Classification Term:
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Ceramics
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Dimensions:
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H. 3 in. (7.62 cm), Diam. 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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14.40.727
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Credit Line:
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Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
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Rights:
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Context:
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One of the most spectacular Iznik pieces in the Museum's collection, this dish displays a synthetic design in the quintessential Ottoman manner. The rich blue and turquoise floral scroll on the cavetto echoes Yuan dynasty celadons from the fourteenth century, while the design in the center of the plate, originally thought to emulate a celadon model as well, is probably based on an Islamic brickwork pattern found, among other places, in Seljuq tomb towers in western Iran in the late eleventh century. The combination of design sources with the developing ceramic palette underscores the creative independence of the Ottoman potter in the sixteenth century. |
Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.is14.40.727.R.tif
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