A 'DOME OF THE ROCK' POTTERY TILE Syria, mid 16th...
A 'DOME OF THE ROCK' POTTERY TILE
Syria, mid 16th century
Square tile, decorated in cobalt blue outlined in black against a white ground with a stylised split-palmette and lotus motif, all beneath a clear transparent glaze.
17.5cm x 17.7cm
This decorative style first appears on the tile revetments of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, commissioned by the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent around 1545. Comparable tiles were subsequently employed on a number of monuments in Aleppo, as well as in several distinguished private residences.
For similar examples:
Millner, A., Damascus Tiles, Munich, London and New York, 2015), pp. 182, fig. 4.74; pl. 189, fig. 4.85; and p. 205, fig. 4.105.
Necipoglu, G.. 2008, The Dome of the Rock as Palimpsest: 'Abd al-Malik's Grand Narrative and Sultan Suleyman's Glosses, In Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World XXV. 17-105).
Sotheby’s London, Eclectic, 2-18 May 2020, lot 43.
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A 'DOME OF THE ROCK' POTTERY TILE
Syria, mid 16th century
Square tile, decorated in cobalt blue outlined in black against a white ground with a stylised split-palmette and lotus motif, all beneath a clear transparent glaze.
17.5cm x 17.7cm
This decorative style first appears on the tile revetments of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, commissioned by the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent around 1545. Comparable tiles were subsequently employed on a number of monuments in Aleppo, as well as in several distinguished private residences.
For similar examples:
Millner, A., Damascus Tiles, Munich, London and New York, 2015), pp. 182, fig. 4.74; pl. 189, fig. 4.85; and p. 205, fig. 4.105.
Necipoglu, G.. 2008, The Dome of the Rock as Palimpsest: 'Abd al-Malik's Grand Narrative and Sultan Suleyman's Glosses, In Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World XXV. 17-105).
Sotheby’s London, Eclectic, 2-18 May 2020, lot 43.
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