Enrica Medugno
Senior Sale Coordinator
Lot 49R
A Damascus underglaze-painted pottery border tile Syria, 17th Century
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,500 - £3,500
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Oliver White
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A Damascus underglaze-painted pottery border tile
Syria, 17th Century
Syria, 17th Century
of rectangular form, decorated in cobalt blue, turquoise, green, manganese and black on a white ground with scrolling saz leaves containing cloud-band motifs, and scrolling split palmettes, on a ground of foliate scrollwork with rosettes and partial flowerheads, all within horizontal borders
29.2 x 14.1 cm.
29.2 x 14.1 cm.
Footnotes
Comparable tiles are in The Metropolitan Museum, New York (Object No. 68.215.12) and the British Museum, London (Museum No. 1895,0603.135). For a similar tile sold in these rooms, see Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 2 October 2012, lot 79.
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