Dish with Sailing-ship Design
Unknown
ca. 1600 · Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze · Islamic Art
The Ottoman navy had an increasing presence in the Mediterranean in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and it is not surprising that sailing ships became a popular motif in Iznik pottery. Although multiple lateen-rigged ships were the standard on jugs and tankards, on plates the design was normally a single, multi-masted ship, more European than Turkish in appearance, sailing on a schematic sea adorned with curious cloudlike shapes.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1600
- Medium
- Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1966
