DAMASCUS, SYRIA, CIRCA 1420-50

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A GROUP OF SIX MAMLUK HEXAGONAL POTTERY TILES
DAMASCUS, SYRIA, CIRCA 1420-50
The white ground of each painted with a stellar motif, two with central floral pattern, two with central geometric pattern and two with central flowerhead and manganese star branches
Largest 8in. (20.4cm.) 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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Sara Plumbly

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拍品專文

Tiles from the same series as those in blue and manganese in this group (illustrated in the centre of the image) are decorating the walls of the Kataeesh mosque in Sidon (John Carswell, 'Six Tiles' in Richard Ettinghausen (ed.), Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1972, p.102).

DAMASCUS, SYRIA, CIRCA 1420-50

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拍品專文

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