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
10 3/8 x 8½in. (26 x 21.5cm.)

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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 (Atil, Esin: Renaissance of Islam, Washington D.C., 1981, no.111, pp.218-9). 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 1574-5 AD (Islamic Art II, Genoa and New York, 1987, col.pl.XIII).

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