Ottoman Iznik Stonepaste Dish: Two Birds among Flowering Plants

Arts of Significance 1560 AD Renaissance 🇹🇷 Turkey 356 views

A fine Ottoman Iznik stonepaste dish painted with two birds among flowering plants in polychrome underglaze, ca. 16th–17th century — one of the most celebrated ceramic traditions in world art history.

The Golden Age of IznikThe ceramic workshops of Iznik (ancient Nicaea) in northwestern Anatolia produced, between approximately 1480 and 1700, what many connoisseurs consider the finest painted ceramics ever made. Patronised directly by the Ottoman sultans — their tiles lined the walls of Topkapı Pa...

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