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Isnik|ɪzˈnɪk|
The name of a town in Asian Turkey, the classical Nicæa (see Nicene a. (and n.)), used attrib. to denote pottery or tiles made there, or imitations thereof, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, characterized by the use of brilliant pigments.
[1909F. R. Martin in Burlington Mag. Aug. 270/2 The splendid blue and white bowls, commonly ascribed to Kutaya, which I am convinced come from Isnik.] 1932R. L. Hobson Guide Islamic Pott. Near East iii. 87 There were doubtless potters at work in other towns in the sixteenth century,..and it is highly probable that they would adapt their wares to the prevailing Turkish taste as expressed by the Isnik pottery. 1939A. Lane Guide Coll. Tiles (V. & A. Mus.) ii. 16 The pure white ground and tense drawing so characteristic of the later Isnik tiles. 1957― Later Islamic Pott. iii. 60 It will probably never be possible to stop dealers and collectors calling the later Isnik wares ‘Rhodian’, and the nickname is at any rate a convenient label for the whole class in which the ‘sealing-wax red’ appears. 1966J. Fowles Magus xv. 88 A triangular cabinet full of pale-blue and green Isnik ware. 1972Daily Tel. 5 Dec. 12/5 A large Isnik pottery dish of the late 16th century was bought by Eskenazi for..{pstlg}8,000 at Sotheby's yesterday. |