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Lot 329
Three Damascus underglaze-painted pottery tiles
Syria, 16th and 17th Century
(3)
18 – 26 May 2023, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £765 inc. premium

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Three Damascus underglaze-painted pottery tiles
Syria, 16th and 17th Century

each of rectangular form, decorated in cobalt blue, green and black on a white ground, two with a central lobed cartouche containing palmettes, on a ground of scrolling floral and split palmette vines, partial flowerheads to either end, with green border to one long edge; the third with split palmette and floral interlace
the largest 22.9 x 11.1 cm.(3)

Footnotes

For a similar complete tile dated to the early seventeenth century, see A Millner, Damascus Tiles, London, 2015, p. 275, fig. 6.76.

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