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PLATE
Second half of 18th century.
h: 3.8 cm.; d: 14.5 cm.
 

White paste, white slip and transparent, colourless glaze. The shallow plate has a ring foot and everted rim. Decorated underglaze in yellow, green, cobalt blue, manganese purple and brownish red with black outlines. In the center is a woman wearing a cobalt blue cepken, şalvar with yellow and purple diagonal stripes and a tall headdress with a similar pattern. The pattern resembles that known as eğrimli which occurs in local Kütahya costume. She is holding a flower spray and there is a stem with three small flowers at the edge of her tall striped headdress. She is flanked by atrailing flower spray to one side and a smaller spray to the other

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