Dish with three-domed church and Greek inscription

Details

• Title

  Dish with three-domed church and Greek inscription

• Associated place

  Asia › Turkey (place of creation)

  Asia › Turkey › Marmara Bölgesi (Marmara) Region › Iznik (probable) (probable place of creation)

  The Byzantine World › Nicaea (inscribed on object)

• Date

  1660 - 1670
  Ottoman Period (1281 - 1924)

• Material and technique

  fritware, with underglaze painting in green, turquoise, black, and red

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware

• Technique index

  covered › coated › painted;

  glazed

• Object type

  container › vessel › dish

• Dimensions

  5.5 cm (height)
  25.5 cm (diameter)
  at foot 12.8 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1978.1451

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