Dish with Sailing-ship Design
The Ottoman navy had an increasing presence in the Mediterranean in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and it is not surprising that sailing ships became a popular motif in Iznik pottery. Although multiple lateen-rigged ships were the standard on jugs and tankards, on plates the design was normally a single, multi-masted ship, more European than Turkish in appearance, sailing on a schematic sea adorned with curious cloudlike shapes.
Artwork Details
- Title: Dish with Sailing-ship Design
- Date: ca. 1600
- Geography: Attributed to Turkey, Iznik
- Medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze
- Dimensions: H. 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm)
Diam. of rim: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm) - Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1966
- Object Number: 66.4.7
- Curatorial Department: Islamic Art
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