Bowl

At the end of the fourteenth century, Armenians settled at Kutahya in Anatolia, about 200 miles from Istanbul. The potteries in Kutahya date back to the sixteenth century, though their output was virtually unknown until the eighteenth century when production was at its peak.
Kutahya ceramics are characterised by a siliceous paste, with no slip, an alkaline-lead glaze and a varied chromatic palette in which yellows and greens predominate. While the technique and decoration of Kutahya ceramics was inspired by Iznik ware, its originality on the one hand lies in the use of yellow, and on the other, the abundance of religious motifs. The central decoration in the interior of the bowl is a six-point star shaped rosette surrounded by fish, which were a symbol of the early Christian church.