Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants
Unknown
ca. 1575–90 · Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze · Islamic Art
Two small birds are perched within the tangle of carnation, tulip, and hyacinth stems on this colorful plate. A popular literary Ottoman literary trope, bird and flower designs were a pervasive decorative element on Iznik pottery of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1575–90
- Medium
- Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Gift of James J. Rorimer in appreciation of Maurice S. Dimand's curatorship, 1933–1959, 1959
