Enrica Medugno
Senior Sale Coordinator
Lot 47R
An Ottoman underglaze-painted pottery border tile Syria, 16th Century
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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Oliver White
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An Ottoman underglaze-painted pottery border tile
Syria, 16th Century
Syria, 16th Century
of rectangular form, decorated in black under a turquoise glaze with a central lobed quatrefoil cartouche containing palmette motifs, surrounded by foliate scrollwork with flowerheads and split palmettes
20.9 x 11.8 cm. max.
20.9 x 11.8 cm. max.
Footnotes
Similar tiles can be found in the iwans of the Beit Janblat, Aleppo, built in the second half of the 16th Century (illustrated in John Carswell, Iznik Pottery, London, 1998, p. 112, No. 89). Further examples are in the British Museum, London (Museum Number 1889,0206.1) and the Musee Des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (Accession No. D381-9).
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