Maiolica dish painted with sprays of foliage and flowers

An image of Dish. Maiolica. Manardi Factory, probably. Made in the Veneto at either Padua or Bassano. Painted with sprays of foliage and flowers including roses, hyacinths, carnations, tulips and lilies on either side of a saz leaf, all springing from the same point at the bottom of the rim. At the top, the initials 'G:D:/B:' are inscribed in a rectangular scrolled frame. Pale yellowish-cream earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse scattered with pin holes and tinged with green. Painted in blue, green which has run, yellow, and orange, with manganese-purple outlines. Height, whole, 8.8 cm, diameter, whole, 48.8 cm, circa 1610-1705. Iznik Style.

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Dish. Maiolica. Manardi Factory, probably. Made in the Veneto at either Padua or Bassano. Painted with sprays of foliage and flowers including roses, hyacinths, carnations, tulips and lilies on either side of a saz leaf, all springing from the same point at the bottom of the rim. At the top, the initials 'G:D:/B:' are inscribed in a rectangular scrolled frame. Pale yellowish-cream earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse scattered with pin holes and tinged with green. Painted in blue, green which has run, yellow, and orange, with manganese-purple outlines. Height, whole, 8.8 cm, diameter, whole, 48.8 cm, circa 1610-1705. Iznik Style.

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Accession Number: C.22-1932
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/39.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 994 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 341.79kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 39/1

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17th Century Artist/Maker Artistic Movement Caryophyllaceae Date Department Dianthus Fitz_AA Isnik Italian Iznik Lilium Manardi Factory Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Venetian School Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd carnations dish earthenware floral flowers foliage foliate glazed leaves lilies lily maiolica painted pinks roses saz leaves tin-glazed tulips

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