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Lot 52

A Timurid underglaze-painted hexagonal pottery Tile
Persia, second half of the 15th Century

23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £4,000 inc. premium

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A Timurid underglaze-painted hexagonal pottery Tile
Persia, second half of the 15th Century

of hexagonal form, decorated in green and black with palmettes and split palmettes on a ground of scrolling floral vines terminating in half palmettes
15.5 cm. max. diam.

Footnotes

For an almost identical tile in the David Collection (D41/1986) see Kjeld von Folsach, Art from the world of Islam in the David Collection, p. 117; another tile from the same group is also illustrated in Venetia Porter, Islamic Tiles, p. 18; and another, formerly on loan at the Rijksmuseum, was sold at Christie's Amsterdam (World Ceramics: The J. W. N Van Achterbergh Collection, 1 November 2005, lot 71).

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