Description:
English delft shallow dish decorated in blue, yellow, and green. The well is covered with three large yellow and blue tulips with green leaves in a vase with four blue vertical stripes; two blue Chinese cloud scrolls frame the center tulip, and two others extend from the lower section of the vase. The rim is yellow with blue dashes and encircled with a double blue band; the back is tin-glazed. Seveenteenth-century flower books as well as Turkish pottery from Isnik, often decorated with tulips and carnations, inspired the tulip design as tulip mania overwealmed Holland and England in the late 16 and early 17th centuries. Both literary sources and fragments of Isnik pottery found in a late 17th century site at Waltham Abbey confirm this early design source.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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