Object details
Accession number
C1s54.2
Primary Creator
Turkish, Kutahya
Full title
Pitcher
Creation Date
18th century
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by 1915.
Marks
Inscribed (on the underside, in black): three asterisk-like forms (an unidentified pottery mark; illustrated in Horioka, p. 120)
Dimensions
12.7 x 18 cm (5 x 7 1/16 in.)
Display Media
Polychrome underglaze paint on silceous earthenware
Web Commentary
Pottery made in Kϋtahya in Turkey follows in the tradition of underglaze painting of the Ottoman Empire. The bright yellow tulips on this small pitcher recall stylized designs out of the ceramic workshops at Iznik.
Permanent Gallery Location
Yellow Room
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 22. (as Turkish (Kütahya), 17th or 18th century)
Yasuko Horioka et al. Oriental and Islamic Art: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1975), pp. 119-20, no. 54. (as Turkish (Kütahya), 18th century)
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