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This piece has been damaged and repaired with metal mounts. A number of large basins survive which were probably made as sets with equally large ewers. None of these large ewers has survived but this smaller one shows what they might have looked like.\r\n\r\nThis piece was made in the small town of Iznik in north-west Anatolia. Iznik 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, and often very large.","physicalDescription":"Blue and white angular ewer, decorated with arabesques and stylized clouds. 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