Plate Depicting a Woman Playing Tambourine

ca. 1600

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 460

In the seventeenth century, the popularity of images of human figures, animals, and inanimate objects such as ships on Iznik pottery increased. Some of these motifs may have held deeper significance. The young woman with a tambourine, for example, may symbolize the sun—sometimes referred to in Ottoman poetry as a tambourine.

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Title: Plate Depicting a Woman Playing Tambourine
Date: ca. 1600
Geography: Attributed to Turkey, Iznik
Medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze
Dimensions: H. 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm)
Diam. of rim: 11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1967
Object Number: 67.178.1
Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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ZEYBA RAHMAN: Don’t you want to listen to the girl playing the tambourine? This instrument has remained widely popular through the ages. It spans many regions, and includes the Persian and Turkish musical traditions, as far east as Central Asia. The musician Abbos Kasimov is a master of this frame drum with jingles, which is also known as the doyra. Let’s listen to him now.

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