Publication Date
Circa 949-54/1545-50
Publication Place
-
Victoria and Albert Museum
Subject
Colored and glazed ceramics.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع: 28 سم؛ القطر: 42.2 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
243–1876
Record ID
object;ISL;uk;Mus02;28;ar
Library Location
Victoria and Albert Museum
Date
Circa 949-54/1545-50
Notes
A large bowl on a high base. Its decoration is colored dark blue and turquoise under a layer of glaze, and it consists of long, continuous branches that wrap at their ends in the form of circular ornaments. This is a decorative style that flourished on Ottoman ceramics in the 1620s until the 1650s. It was called the “Golden Century” style in reference to this area of Istanbul where it was believed, and it may be a mistaken belief, that this ceramics were made. This style had another, less common name, the "Tugrakash scroll" style, which was used to denote its clear relationship with the decorations applied to the archives of the Ottoman Empire, whose book illumination experts were entrusted with the tughra decoration, the sultan's emblem. The exceptional size of this bowl, and the quality of its elaborate decoration, indicate that it was produced for the highest levels of the Ottoman court, although there is no physical evidence for this.
Sample Text
Barry Wood "Bowl" inDiscover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;uk;Mus02;28;ar
