An Ottoman underglaze-painted pottery border tile Syria, probably Aleppo, 16th...
Property from a private collection of tiles
An Ottoman underglaze-painted pottery border tile
Syria, probably Aleppo, 16th Century
of rectangular form, decorated in black on a turquoise ground with a lobed cartouche containing palmettes on a ground of scrolling floral and split-palmette vines
17 x 12.4 cm.
This type of border tile is found in the iwans of Bayt Jumblatt, Aleppo. A similar tile is illustrated in A. Millner, Damascus Tiles, London, 2015, p. 188, fig. 4.84. For a further comparable tile, see Christie's, Islamic Art, Indian Miniatures, Rugs and Carpets, 20 October 1992, lot 134.
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Property from a private collection of tiles
An Ottoman underglaze-painted pottery border tile
Syria, probably Aleppo, 16th Century
of rectangular form, decorated in black on a turquoise ground with a lobed cartouche containing palmettes on a ground of scrolling floral and split-palmette vines
17 x 12.4 cm.
This type of border tile is found in the iwans of Bayt Jumblatt, Aleppo. A similar tile is illustrated in A. Millner, Damascus Tiles, London, 2015, p. 188, fig. 4.84. For a further comparable tile, see Christie's, Islamic Art, Indian Miniatures, Rugs and Carpets, 20 October 1992, lot 134.
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