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Blue-ground Dish with Floral and 'Cintamani' Designs

ca. 1570–75
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 460
Most Iznik wares were coated with a white slip, or engobe, prior to decoration, and this slip produced the predominant white background against which colored glazes stood out so dramatically. In a small number of wares, pigments were added to the slip, and the resulting backgrounds included a range of pinks, beiges, browns, and blues that were decorated with floral designs or, in this case, an abstract pattern of petals or swirling lobes, perhaps inspired by a metalwork prototype.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Blue-ground Dish with Floral and 'Cintamani' Designs
  • Date: ca. 1570–75
  • Geography: Made in Turkey, Iznik
  • Medium: Stonepaste; colored slip and polychrome painted
  • Dimensions: H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
    Diam. of rim: 12 in. (30.5 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics
  • Credit Line: The Friends of the Department of Islamic Art Fund, 1970
  • Object Number: 1970.30
  • Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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