A Damascus underglaze-painted pottery tile Syria, late 16th Century

A Damascus underglaze-painted pottery tile
Syria, late 16th Century
of square form, decorated underglaze in turquoise, cobalt-blue, green and manganese with black outline on a white ground with a tulip head, pomegranates and polylobed cartouche containing interlacing split palmettes, all on a ground of floral interlace
26.7 x 26.7 cm.
Similar tile designs dated to the late 16th Century can be seen in A. Millner, Damascus Tiles, London, 2015, pp. 36 & 260, Figs. 1.17 & 6.41. For a comparable tile sold in these rooms, see Bonhams, Islamic & Indian Art, 6 April 2006, Lot 177.