Dish with Grape Design

Object Details

• Description

  Dish with plain rim.

  Clay: buff-colored.

  Glaze: transparent over white slip; painted in cobalt blue and green.

  Decoration: bunches of grapes with leaves amid scrolling vine in center; scroll with blossoms in cavetto; chevron pattern on rim; scroll with blossoms outside.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Turkish Art (May 26, 1982 to June 24, 1982)

  Turkish Ceramics (September 24, 1982 to May 10, 1985)

  Turkish Art (November 1, 1980 to May 25, 1982)

  A Decade of Discovery: Selected Acquisitions 1970-1980 (November 9, 1979 to May 22, 1980)

  Ceramics from the World of Islam (January 16, 1974 to July 1, 1974)

  Turkish Art—Special Exhibition (August 1 to December 19, 1973)

• Origin

  Iznik, Turkey

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1600s, 1550s

• Place

  Iznik

• Topic

  Iznik ware, Art, Grape, Ottoman period (1307 - 1922), Arts of the Islamic World, Stone-paste, Ceramics

• Culture

  Muslims, Turks

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)