Plate Depicting a Woman Playing Tambourine
Unknown
ca. 1600 · Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze · Islamic Art
In the seventeenth century, the popularity of images of human figures, animals, and inanimate objects such as ships on Iznik pottery increased. Some of these motifs may have held deeper significance. The young woman with a tambourine, for example, may symbolize the sun—sometimes referred to in Ottoman poetry as a tambourine.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1600
- Medium
- Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1967
