Damascus.
A rectangular stone-paste border tile, painted in shades of underglaze cobalt blue, apple green, turquoise and blue-gray with black outlines on a white ground. A series of undulating pale blue-gray saz leaves containing cloud bands is intertwined with a series of split-leaf palmettes.
Second half of 16th century.
5.5 x 10 in. {14 x 25.4 cm.} Uneven.
c.f. Porter, V., Islamic Tiles, pub. Interlink Books, 1995. p.118.
Petsopoulos, Yanni{Edit}.Tulips, Arabesques & Turbans, Decorative Arts from the Ottoman Empire, pub. Alexandria Press, London, p.96, plate.110.
Ernst, H. {edit} Ceramique Orientale, Pl.10
Condition: Trimmed to fit, minor edge chips.