The tankard of cylindrical shape with angular handle shows three horizontally divided decoration registers. The central part is decorated with blue waves on white background, the two lateral sections with white ornamental shapes, flowers and leaves on a green background. The base and top borders with two braid motifs. Painted in under glaze polychrome with copper green, black and the typical relief bole red made from particular Anatolian clay rich in iron. It is interesting to point out two small holes on the sides realized before the firing similar to those that appear on decorative plates - some of these objects were therefore meant to be hung on the walls as adornments. A similar piece is exhibited in the Ceramics Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, published in Bernard Rackam’s catalogue “Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica”, London 1957. Comparison: Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, “Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey” Piatto con decorazione floreale, Turchia (Iznik), seconda metà sec. XVI Ceramica invetriata policroma Bibliografia comparativa: Le Mille e una notte, Faenza 1990 Gaetano Ballardini, Le maioliche della Collezione Ducrot, Ed. d'arte Bestetti, num. di cat. 120