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Jarearly 16th century

Not on view
Ceramic vase with rounded body and cylindrical neck, decorated in cobalt blue on white with a central peacock among scrolling vines and floral motifs, banded neck with geometric patterns
Fritware vase with bulbous body and flared neck, decorated in cobalt blue on white with dense scrolling floral motifs including rosettes and tulips; banded borders of interlaced leaf forms at neck and base.
Ceramic vase with bulbous body and wide neck, decorated in cobalt blue on white with large floral and foliate motifs on the body, interlacing vine borders at the neck, and a repeated leaf-form band at the base; crazing visible in the glaze.
Ceramic vase with bulbous body and cylindrical neck, decorated in cobalt blue on white with scrolling floral and leaf motifs across the body, framed by geometric and interlaced border bands at neck and base.
Ceramic vase with bulbous body and cylindrical neck, decorated in cobalt blue on white with dense scrolling floral and vine motifs; banded borders of geometric and leaf patterns at neck and base.
Title
Jar
Place Made
Turkey, Iznik
Date Made
early 16th century
Period
Ottoman (1281-1924)
Medium
Fritware, underglaze-painted
Dimensions
Height: 9 1/2 in. (24.2 cm ); Diameter: 4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm )
Credit Line
The Edwin Binney, 3rd, Collection of Turkish Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Accession Number
M.85.237.80
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Curatorial Notes

This superb Iznik jar belongs to a particular phase in the development of Ottoman pottery, possibly the second decade of the sixteenth century, when potters had begun to use two values of blue on a white ground. The jar employs a lighter shade of blue, along with a deep cobalt blue, for its dynamic floral decoration inspired by Chinese designs. The flowers are boldly painted on the white ground, or else, as on the foot and the shoulder, they are reserved in white against blue. Jars of this type, which most likely served as storage containers, testify to the high aesthetic standards of the day.

Selected Bibliography
  • Overton, Keelan. "A History of Ottoman Art History Through the Private Database of Edward Binney, 3rd." Journal of Art Historiography 6 (2012): 1-19.

  • Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.

  • Pal, Pratapaditya, Thomas W. Lentz, Sheila R. Canby, Edwin Binney, 3rd, Walter B. Denny, and Stephen Markel. "Arts from Islamic Cultures: Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 17, no. 6 (November/December 1987): 73-130.

  • Komaroff, Linda. Beauty and Identity: Islamic Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.