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These features are typical of pottery made in Iznik in the early 16th century. The broad white band may once have been gilded.\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. These wares were often very large.\r\n\r\nAt first, the decoration of this new ware was also blue and white. The designs, however, were based on the highly stylised plant forms, knots and other patterns favoured by the Ottoman court. By the 1520s the connection with the court had weakened, and the potters were working mainly for the market. They expanded the range of colours and introduced new patterns from a wide range of sources.","physicalDescription":"Blue and white dish with arabesque motifs, the inner cavetto left white, the outer cavetto with cartouches.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28674"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"fritware","id":"x29419"}],"techniques":[{"text":"underglaze","id":"AAT48642"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Fritware, underglaze painted in cobalt blue, glazed","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Islam","id":"THES48932"}],"styles":[{"text":"Iznik","id":"AAT21623"},{"text":"Ottoman","id":"AAT21614"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2006AF6774","2006AF6775","2017JV9185"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"42 (VA)","id":"THES49806"},"free":"","case":"6W","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Dish","id":""}],[{"text":"charger","id":"AAT43054"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Iznik","id":"x32510"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1510","earliest":"1505-01-01","latest":"1514-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"44.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Bought from the collection of Gaston de Saint-Maurice (1831-1905) in 1884. Saint-Maurice displayed his extensive art collection at the 1878 Paris exhibition, in a gallery entitled L'Egypte des Khalifes. This was part of an official sequence of displays celebrating the history of Egypt, presented by the Egyptian state at this international event. Saint-Maurice held a position at the Khedival court, and had lived in Cairo in 1868-1878. Following the exhibition, Saint-Maurice offered his collection for sale to the South Kensington Museum (today the V&A).","historicalContext":"This dish comes from a phase when Ottoman potters were beginning to define their own independent aesthetic. The decorative motifs, which include scrolling arabesque stems and sinuous cloud motifs, are a distinctive combination of traditional Islamic (then called <i>Rumi</i>) and Chinese (<i>Hatayi</i>) styles, so this style has been dubbed <i>Rumi-Hatayi</i>. The broad white band in the dish's cavetto may once have been gilded.","briefDescription":"Blue-and-white dish with cloud band motifs, Turkey (probably Iznik), ca. 1510.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Lane, Arthur. Later Islamic Pottery. London: Faber and Faber, 1957.","id":"AUTH407102"},"details":"p.48, plate 28A","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby. Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey. London: Alexandria Press, 1989.","id":"AUTH407104"},"details":"fig. 84, p. 91","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[{"text":"Gaston de Saint-Maurice","id":"C4450"}],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[{"text":"Paris International Exhibition, 1878","id":"V165"}],"contentOthers":[{"text":"arabesques","id":"AAT10206"},{"text":"clouds","id":"x30091"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Jameel Gallery \r\n\r\nBlue-and-White Dish\r\nTurkey, probably Iznik\r\nAbout 1510\r\n\r\nCompared to the jar, this dish uses a lighter blue and its pattern is more open. The artist derived the slender, looped motif at the centre of his design from depictions of clouds in Chinese art. These features are typical of Iznik pottery made in the early 16th century. The broad white band may once have been gilded. \r\n\r\nFritware painted under the glaze\r\n\r\nMuseum no. 986-1884","date":{"text":"Jameel Gallery","earliest":"2006-07-20","latest":null}},{"text":"DISH\r\nWhite earthenware painted in blue.\r\nTURKISH (IZNIK); about 1500.","date":{"text":"Old gallery label","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["986-1884"],"accessionNumberNum":"986","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1884,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP1806","2019LT3050","2019LW2132"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-12-30","recordCreationDate":"2003-11-18","availableToBook":false}}