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Lot 48

A 'Dome of the Rock' pottery tile
Jerusalem, circa 1550

22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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A 'Dome of the Rock' pottery tile
Jerusalem, circa 1550

of rectangular form, decorated underglaze in cobalt blue, turquoise and black on a white ground with a lobed cartouche containing a scrolling floral vine with central rosette flanked by lotus flowerheads, further partial cartouches to either side containing palmette motifs, the interstices with further palmettes, all within horizontal borders
26.6 x 10.3 cm. max.

Footnotes

The design of this tile is similar to that depicted in a drawing by Ernest Tatham, created in the 1910s, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Accession No. E.2004-1924). It is one of 26 such drawings of the tiles and decorations of the Dome of the Rock. For two tiles with comparable designs sold at Sotheby's, see Arts of the Islamic World, 6 April 2011, lot 389.

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