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Bowl with Variation of 'Baba Nakkas' Design

ca. 1500–1525
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 460
Some of the earliest Iznik stonepaste ceramics are distinguished by delicate underglaze‑painted blue decoration on a white ground. The meandering vine of two‑toned flowers and the white‑on‑blue decoration of this small bowl link it to an early group of ceramics referred to as Baba Nakkas (literally, "Papa Designer") ware named for an artist employed by the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II (r. 1444–46, 1451–81).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Bowl with Variation of 'Baba Nakkas' Design
  • Date: ca. 1500–1525
  • Geography: Attributed to Turkey, Iznik
  • Medium: Stonepaste; painted in light and dark blue under transparent glaze
  • Dimensions: H. 5 3/16 in. (13.1 cm)
    Diam. 10 in. (25.4 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1932
  • Object Number: 32.34
  • Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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