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They are admired for their monumental size, accomplished potting and well-planned decoration. This relatively early basin has a lower foot and its colour scheme is restricted to blue-and-white. The outside is decorated with large-scale Chinese clouds and leafy scrolls. The interior is organised around a six-pointed knotwork design.\r\n\r\nThe small town of Iznik in north-west Anatolia has given its name to some of the most accomplished ceramics produced in the Islamic Middle East. In the mid 15th century, potters there specialised in modest earthenware imitations of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain. But in the 1460s or 1470s, under the patronage of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror, they began to manufacture bowls, dishes and other pieces of fritware that were elegant in shape and decoration. 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The outside is decorated with the same Chinese clouds and leafy scrolls as the dish to its right, but drawn on a much larger scale. The interior is organised around a six-pointed knotwork design.\r\n\r\nFritware painted under the glaze\r\n\r\nMuseum no. C.1981-1910. Bequest of George Salting","date":{"text":"Jameel Gallery","earliest":"2006-07-20","latest":null}},{"text":"BOWL\r\nFritware with polychrome\r\nunderglaze painting\r\nTURKEY (made at Iznik);\r\nabout 1520\r\nSalting Bequest\r\nThis large bowl copies a metal prototype-shown by the distinctive 'metallic' mouldings on the foot. 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