The Fitzwilliam Museum © Iznik Plate
Code: IPTS-16£6.95
Isnik pottery of the Ottoman period was among the most colourful ever made. This plate is a reproduction of a fritware dish, thinly covered with white slip, and painted under a clear glaze. The brilliant palette, exuberant stems of flowers springing from a central point near the rim and breaking wave border are typical of Iznik designs of about 1550. This plate originally produced for the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain.
Order six or more of the same design for £6.50 each.
Description
Designed in the UK, but nowadays probably manufactured elsewhere, these beautiful “tin” (in reality steel with an over-printed design) plates are ideal for your posh or not quite so posh picnics. So whether your taste is Glyndebourne or Henley, or the local beach or park these plates make fantastic re-usable and un-breakable picnic plates that are bound to set tongues wagging. Robust yet light and washable (if in a dishwasher on a gentle programme) and when the conversation flags can even be used as a Frisbee!
Alternatively if Al Fresco dining is not your biscuit then the plates are great for finger foods or simply as decoration. Until picked up, most people would not know these are not the original porcelain plates as used in some of the great British houses of centuries ago.
