A DAMASCUS POTTERY TILE

OTTOMAN SYRIA, CIRCA 1700

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A DAMASCUS POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN SYRIA, CIRCA 1700
The white ground painted with a stylised candlestick decorated with faux-marbling, a vertical border to one side of similar treatment, plain turquoise and white bands below, ground down and probably reduced on two sides, retouched chips to edges, on stand
10½ x 8½ in. (26.5 x 21.5 cm.)

Provenance

Theodor Sehmer Collection, sold Christie's London, 27 April 2004, lot 202.

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Lot Essay

In Ottoman Damascus many Mamluk designs were still retained. This tile is a case in point. Mamluk examples of paired candlesticks are well known, such as a carved marble panel from Cairo formerly in the Badriyya Madrasa (Esin Atil, Renaissance of Islam, Washington D.C., 1981, no. 111, pp. 218-19). There the candlesticks have a pronounced Mamluk form. Another Damascus tiled panel with similar candlesticks and imitation marble stonework is in the Darvishiya Mosque, Damascus, dating from 1574-75 AD (Islamic Art II, Genoa and New York, 1987, col. pl. XIII).

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