A DAMASCUS TILE PANEL SET INTO A LATER TABLE THE...
A DAMASCUS TILE PANEL SET INTO A LATER TABLE
THE TILES OTTOMAN SYRIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY
Comprising seventeen tiles, the central panel of six square tiles with white ground painted under the glaze with cobalt-blue, turquoise and black, a rosette at the centre of each tile issuing four black palmettes within blue palmette trellis, the remaining rectangular tiles arranged in four groups around the edges of the tabletop, with cobalt-blue ground painted under the glaze in black, white and green, decorated with meandering saz leaves, palmettes and floral vine, set into a later wooden table
The square tiles 8in. (20.4cm.) square; the rectangular tiles 5 x 8 7/8in. (12.8 x 22.6cm.) largest; the table 38 7⁄8 x 31 x 29 ¾in. (99 x 78.8 x 75.6cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, Bern, 1984
Literature
Art Moderne et Ancien, Dr Edmée Angst, Bern, 1984
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A DAMASCUS TILE PANEL SET INTO A LATER TABLE
THE TILES OTTOMAN SYRIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY
Comprising seventeen tiles, the central panel of six square tiles with white ground painted under the glaze with cobalt-blue, turquoise and black, a rosette at the centre of each tile issuing four black palmettes within blue palmette trellis, the remaining rectangular tiles arranged in four groups around the edges of the tabletop, with cobalt-blue ground painted under the glaze in black, white and green, decorated with meandering saz leaves, palmettes and floral vine, set into a later wooden table
The square tiles 8in. (20.4cm.) square; the rectangular tiles 5 x 8 7/8in. (12.8 x 22.6cm.) largest; the table 38 7⁄8 x 31 x 29 ¾in. (99 x 78.8 x 75.6cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, Bern, 1984
Literature
Art Moderne et Ancien, Dr Edmée Angst, Bern, 1984
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
