Dish with Bird, Rabbit and Quadruped Design, last quarter 16th century, Made in Turkey, Iznik, Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze, H. 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm), Ceramics, The animals on this dish, some more recognizable than others, have an old iconographic tradition in Anatolia and can be related to figural Seljuq art. The central design is, in effect, a painted menagerie, an approach not often attempted by Iznik potters before around 1570
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Dish, Bird, Rabbit, Quadruped Design, last quarter 16th century, Turkey, Iznik, Stonepaste, polychrome painted under transparent glaze, H, 2 3/16, 5.6 cm, Ceramics, animals, dish, recognizable, old iconographic, tradition, Anatolia, related, figural Seljuq, art, central design, effect, painted menagerie, approach, attempted, Iznik potters, 1570
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