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A MAMLUK BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL TILE
Lot 147

A MAMLUK BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL TILE

SYRIA, 15TH CENTURY

Closed5 October 2010

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GBP 6,250

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A MAMLUK BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL TILE
SYRIA, 15TH CENTURY
The tile with white ground painted in cobalt-blue, turquoise and black with a large central arabesque outlined in black and reserved against blue cross-hatched ground, a simple turquoise border around the edges, repaired breaks, small areas of restoration
7 1/8in. (17.5cm.) across

Specialist note

This tile relates to one discussed by John Carswell, which is in the Cairo museum. The fleshy cusped arabesque formed concentrically around an ovoid centre on hatched ground is very similar to ours (John Carswell, op.cit., p.120, pl.II, no.C30).