DAMASCUS, SYRIA, CIRCA 1420-50

Details

A GROUP OF THREE MAMLUK HEXAGONAL POTTERY TILES
DAMASCUS, SYRIA, CIRCA 1420-50
The white ground of each painted with wide serrated leaves
Largest 7 5/8in. (19.4cm.)

Provenance

Lockwood de Forest, late 19th century, and thence by descent to the present owner

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Lot Essay

A panel with Mamluk tiles decorated with ferns is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and attributed to Damascus, circa 1420-50 (inv.no.422-1898). With its very finely drawn decoration, the tile with the three-branch fern relates to lot 16 and lot 19 in this sale.

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