Lot Essay
A tile with a related design of a fern amidst flower heads in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv.no.67.69.3).
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DAMASCUS, SYRIA, CIRCA 1420-50
Details
A MAMLUK HEXAGONAL POTTERY TILE
DAMASCUS, SYRIA, CIRCA 1420-50
The white ground painted in cobalt-blue with a fern spray flanked by two flowers
7 ½in. (19cm.) across
DAMASCUS, SYRIA, CIRCA 1420-50
The white ground painted in cobalt-blue with a fern spray flanked by two flowers
7 ½in. (19cm.) across
Provenance
Lockwood de Forest, late 19th century, and thence by descent to the present owner
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