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This ‘grape dish’ was inspired by fashionable Chinese blue-and-white wares. \r\n\r\nThe Ottoman court renewed its patronage of Iznik ceramics during the construction of the Süleymaniye mosque in Istanbul in 1550 to 1557. The first Iznik tiles were produced, and potters added a bright red to the range of colours painted under the glaze. This was achieved with a slip made from a special clay.\r\n\r\nIn the following decades, tiles of high quality were decorated in red, green and tones of blue on a white ground. 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Once created, the Iznik fritware industry seems to have taken on a life of its own, reacting to ups and downs in court demand by producing wares for wider market.\r\nOver the eighty years following Mehmed II's death in 1481, the range of shapes increased, and new decorative schemes were adopted, including some from Chinese sources such as this dish. The popularity of blue-and-white porcelain meant that by the fifteenth century the technique of painting under the glaze was frequently used in imitating the Chinese wares. When it was applied to a fritware body, the result could be a passable pastiche of a Ming original, as in the case of Iznik 'grape' dishes of the early sixteenth century, of which this is an example.","briefDescription":"Dish with depictions of bunches of grapes, Turkey (probably Iznik), 1550-1570.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Lane, Arthur. Later Islamic Pottery. 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Models included the Chinese ‘grape dish’ (2) and the Italian <i>tondino</i> form (15).\r\n\r\nBy the 1530s, small sprays of tulips and other recognisable flowers were a common motif (9, 10, 15), but from the 1550s these were replaced by compositions on a larger scale. Many were originally developed for tilework (1, 3).\r\n\r\n2 Dish with Grapes\r\nTurkey, probably Iznik\r\n1550–70\r\nFritware painted under the glaze\r\nMuseum no. 716-1902\r\n","date":{"text":"Jameel Gallery","earliest":"2006-07-20","latest":null}},{"text":"DISH\r\nWhite earthenware painted in blue and turquoise in imitation of Chinese porcelain.\r\nTURKISH (IZNIK); first half of the 16th century.","date":{"text":"Old gallery label","earliest":null,"latest":"2003-11-30"}}],"partNumbers":["716-1902"],"accessionNumberNum":"716","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1902,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP7523","2019LR5095","2019LT9668","2019LT7715"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-09-26","recordCreationDate":"2003-11-18","availableToBook":false}}