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Lot 328
An Ottoman underglaze-painted pottery border tile
Syria, probably Aleppo, 16th Century
18 – 26 May 2023, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£800 - £1,200

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An Ottoman underglaze-painted pottery border tile
Syria, probably Aleppo, 16th Century

of rectangular form, decorated in black on a turquoise ground with a lobed cartouche containing palmettes on a ground of scrolling floral and split-palmette vines
17 x 12.4 cm.

Footnotes

This type of border tile is found in the iwans of Bayt Jumblatt, Aleppo. A similar tile is illustrated in A. Millner, Damascus Tiles, London, 2015, p. 188, fig. 4.84. For a further comparable tile, see Christie's, Islamic Art, Indian Miniatures, Rugs and Carpets, 20 October 1992, lot 134.

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