OTTOMAN SYRIA OR PALESTINE, 16TH CENTURY

Details

A 'DOME OF THE ROCK' WINDOW TILE
OTTOMAN SYRIA OR PALESTINE, 16TH CENTURY
The centre of the tile with scalloped aperture, the white ground decorated under the glaze with black arabesques, intact
7 3/8in. (18.5cm.) square

Provenance

Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1993

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Lot Essay

Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu refers to tiles of this type, which covered the windows of the octagon from the exterior, as being amongst the most characteristic part of the Dome of the Rock revetments (Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, 'Tile Samples from the Dome of the Rock and their 20th Century Reproductions' in Tadeusz Majda (ed.), Seventh International Congress of Turkish Art, Warsaw, 1990, p.275, fig.13, inv.349).

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