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Lot 330
Two Damascus underglaze-painted pottery tiles
Syria, 16th and 17th Century
(2)
18 – 26 May 2023, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,825 inc. premium

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

the first of rectangular form, decorated in cobalt blue and green with black outline on a white ground with flowerheads interspersed by palmettes; the second of polygonal form decorated in polychrome with partial lobed cartouches filled with flowerheads
the larger 25 x 18.5 cm.(2)

Footnotes

For comparable examples to the first tile, dated to the 17th Century, see A. Millner, Damascus Tiles, London, 2015, p. 168, Fig 4.60. For a similar example to the second tile, dated to the 16th Century, see the same publication, p. 272, Fig. 6.63.

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