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On this dish, the arabesques are Islamic, while the background has a wave scroll inspired by Chinese models. The rim is decorated with a version of the Chinese rock and wave 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. These were elegant in shape and decoration and often very large.\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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On the two dishes the background has a wave scroll inspired by Chinese models, and the rims have versions of the Chinese rock and wave design.\r\n\r\nFritware painted under the glaze\r\n\r\nMuseum nos. 1141-1864, C.2016-1910, Bequest of George Salting; 1708-1855; C.1993-1910, Bequest of George Salting ","date":{"text":"Jameel Gallery","earliest":"2006-07-20","latest":null}},{"text":"DISH\r\nWhite earthenware painted in underglaze colours.\r\nTURKISH (IZNIK); second half of the 16th century.\r\nSalting Bequest","date":{"text":"Old label","earliest":null,"latest":"2003-11-30"}}],"partNumbers":["C.2016-1910"],"accessionNumberNum":"2016","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1910,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP7082","2019LT1476","2019LW5111"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2003-11-18","availableToBook":false}}