Plate Depicting a Woman Playing Tambourine

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 460

In the seventeenth century, the popularity of images of human figures, animals, and inanimate objects such as ships on Iznik pottery increased. Some of these motifs may have held deeper significance. The young woman with a tambourine, for example, may symbolize the sun—sometimes referred to in Ottoman poetry as a tambourine.

#6784. Plate Depicting a Woman Playing Tambourine

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Plate Depicting a Woman Playing Tambourine, Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

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