DAMASCUS, SYRIA, CIRCA 1420-50

細節

A GROUP OF THREE MAMLUK HEXAGONAL POTTERY TILES
DAMASCUS, SYRIA, CIRCA 1420-50
Comprising two tiles with floral decoration within a six-pointed star on hatched ground and a tile with stylized pomegranate sprays at either side of swaying floral forms, each with turquoise blue border
Each 7 ½in. (19cm.) across

來源

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

注意事項

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榮譽呈獻

Sara Plumbly

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拍品專文

The motif of a six-pointed star encompassing a floral motif appears on tiles decorating the walls of the Ghars al-Din al-Khalil al-Tawrizi mosque (d. 1430) in Damascus (John Carswell, 'Six Tiles', in Richard Ettinghausen (ed.), Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1972, plate 5, p.114). Another tile of this motif sold at Christie's South Kensington, 27 April 2012, lot 155

DAMASCUS, SYRIA, CIRCA 1420-50

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