Terms and conditions of use
Plate
(late 16th century)
- Medium
- earthenware (Iznik ware)
- Measurements
- 6.7 × 35.8 cm diameter
- Place/s of Execution
- Iznik, Turkey
- Accession Number
- 1532-D5
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1968
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Gordon Darling Foundation - Gallery location
- 17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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The fifteenth to the seventeenth century was the heyday of ceramic production at Iznik in north-western Turkey, the chief production centre for ceramic vessels and tiles in the Ottoman Empire. The rise of the Iznik ceramic industry was stimulated by court taste for imported blue-and-white Chinese porcelains; earthenware imitations of these vessels decorated with cobalt oxide blue sourced from Iran represent the earliest phase of Iznik production. The blue-and-white palette was eventually enriched by turquoise blue, purple, a range of greens and a characteristic tomato red. The stylised wave-and-rock border of this plate derives from Ming ceramic decoration.
- Physical description
- Broad rim black and blue circle motifs, centre blue/red flower, six red/green leaves, blue and green ground.