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ÖM 301/64 :: plate

Object description: Flaring sides flat rim, low foot, pink and reddish yellow paste (7.5 8/4 and 8/6). Underglaze painting in green (leaves and some flowers), blue (tulips and blossoms), mat red (flowers) on white slip, under a clear transparent glaze.

Data elements
References (2)

Object, external - same as

ÖM:OM-1964-0301

Source - http: kulturarvsdata.se

Inventory number

ÖM 301/64

Serie nummer

12058

Previous ID

OM-1964-0301

Object

plate

Country, Swedish - Origin

Turkiet

Country - Origin

Turkey : Asia

Place - Findspot

Turkey, Iznik

Material

Glazed pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik; Lera; Glaserat lergods

Acquisition

Deposistion from Östasiatiska Museet, Stockholm

Description, Swedish

Fat, 1500-tal

Description

Flaring sides flat rim, low foot, pink and reddish yellow paste (7.5 8/4 and 8/6). Underglaze painting in green (leaves and some flowers), blue (tulips and blossoms), mat red (flowers) on white slip, under a clear transparent glaze.

Period

Ottoman (1299-1922)

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

16th century AD

Name - Owner

Östasiatiska museet

Description: The Swedish archaeologist Johan "Kina-Gunnar" Andersson found painted ceramics from Chinas agricultural Stone Age in China in the 1920s. These collections formed the basis for the museum, which was instituted by the Swedish Parliament in 1926. The museum grew rapidly and eventually held a wealth of informative material about Asian cultures. These collections were merged in 1959 with the National Museum of Fine Arts collections of Far Eastern and Indian arts and crafts. The new museum opened in 1963 in Tyghuset, an old naval building on Skeppsholmen. The long yellow building, which dates from the late 1600s, was designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. It has been a ropewalk, a poorhouse and a stable, as well as a lions den, and now: Meeting place Asia!
Since 1999 the museum has been part of the National Museums of World Culture together with the Museum of Ethnography and the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm and the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg. The four museums present and bring to life the worlds cultures and offer a perspective on our world. (www.ostasiatiska.se, 2010-10-07)
Source - http: libris.kb.se, www.ostasiatiska.se, collections.smvk.se

Published text

This Iznik pottery dish is underglaze painted in bright green, which dominates the composition, pale red and blue with black for the outlines, on a white background. The floral design at the centre is composed of tulips and roses on curved stems, all springing from a leafy tuft and a serrated saz leaf falling across the centre of the plate. A tulip on a curved saz leaf was one of the few stylistic developments in the traditional floral decoration of Iznik pottery in the last quarter of the AH 10th / AD 16th century. On the slightly curved rim, there are alternating blossoms of tulips and simple rosettes. The back of the dish is painted with ten green dots and transparent glazed. The glaze is heavily crackled. The foot-ring is pierced once for suspension.

Iznik pottery of the AH 11th / AD 17th century is characterised by the increasingly inferior quality of colours and glaze as well as simplified and standardised designs, repeated in numerous examples of dishes. The artistic decline is due to the decline of Ottoman political and economic power. On the one hand the potters had to increase the production of vessels for the open market and on the other hand they had to make a profit by cutting costs.

Source: [https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;se;Mus01;48;en&cp]

How date and origin were established:

The 'quatre fleurs' style and the feathered saz leaves in combination with sprays of flowers occurred from the second half of the 10th / 16th century. However, the dish seems to be later because of the carelessly painted design and the green colour running into the glaze. These are significant features of polychrome underglaze painted ceramics of the 11th / 17th century produced for an increasing open market.

Source: [https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;se;Mus01;48;en&cp]

How provenance was established:

According to the floral decoration and the shape that are both specific for Iznik ceramics.

Source: [https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;se;Mus01;48;en&cp]

Source - http

islamicart.museumwnf.org

Height / Höjd

4,5 cm

Diameter

26 cm

Dimensions

H. 4,5 cm., Ø. 26 cm.

Loan in - Current

in-0000.0004, Medelhavsmuseet

Condition

Glaze partially worn off.

Conservation - Executed

report from the 1992-01-15, two pieces are missing, glaze worn and partially remade, especially in the red parts that are reliefed. the plate was repaired with acrylate glue (paraloid B 72): The worn parts were stabilised with paraloid B 72, 10% etanol, the surface was cleaned with aceton and water.

Original register

Islam

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