Dish with Phoenixes

late 17th century

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 461

This dish is typical of the objects that were displayed in open niches in reception rooms of upper-class Syrian residences during the Ottoman period

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Title: Dish with Phoenixes
Date: late 17th century
Geography: Made in Possibly Syria
Medium: Earthenware; painted under transparent glaze
Dimensions: H. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
Diam. 13 3/8 in. (34 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
Object Number: 30.95.27
Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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