Fragment of Iznik II bowl
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 228
- Date
- Ca. 1540-1560 AD, Islamic
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.036
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- Iznik II Ware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- Description
- Dish with low, flaring foot ring, shallow, concave sides, and flange rim. Body of hard, rather coarse white (Munsell 5Y 8/1) clay with thin, white slip on both interior and exterior. Design underglaze painted in sage green, azure, and turquoise, with forms outlined in greenish-black contour lines. Decoration on interior from center consists of central zone filled with plant forms (a clump of long, slender leaves in sage, blooms in sage with turquoise centers on slender tendrils, and a heavy azure stem) enclosed in a border of scale-like lobes in sage green, and finally, just within the rim, a pair of narrow, concentric, greenish-black rings. On exterior from top, a narrow, greenish-black ring enclosing Chinese cloud scrolls in azure, a scattering of long, slender leaves in sage, and a scaly mass of sage leaves on a turquoise stem, across which is superimposed a narrow, azure stem bearing a great sage and turquoise bud and a pair of azure blooms with turquoise centers. Foot enclosed with a narrow, greenish-black ring. Glazed on both interior and exterior with close-fitting, colorless glaze of even thickness. Slight iridescence. Diameter of rim 22.5 cm, diameter of foot ring 9.0 cm, height 5.5 cm.
- Comments
- From Sardis, excavation sector PN. Crane: Fine fully developed Iznik II of this sort was produced only briefly and in small quantities, and is exceedingly rare. See Lane 1957, pl. B.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- H. Crane, “The Glazed Pottery of the Turkish Period from Sardis,” unpublished manuscript (1977), 6, 23-24, no. 5; Crane in Greenewalt 1977, 51-52 and fig. 3.
- Author
- CHG