Iznik Plate

Description Ottoman ceramic artists took much of their inspiration from nature and created designs incorporating stylized leaves with recognizable plants, flowers, and trees. Familiar species depicted on this plate include tulips, and cypress trees.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
5/13/1952	Treatment	cleaned
1/14/2000	Treatment	cleaned; loss compensation; other

Exhibitions

• World of Wonder. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1971-1972.
• Paradise Imagined: Images of the Garden in the Islamic and Christian World. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2012.
• Excursions through the Collection: Portraiture, Adornment, and the Natural World. 2019-2020.

Provenance Edouard Aynard Sale, Paris, Dec. 1913, no. 113; Estate of D.K. Kelekian; Walters Art Museum, 1952, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase, 1952