Tile 14.
Syria {Damascus}
A rectangular stone paste border tile, underglaze painted in shades of cobalt blue, green and manganese . A series of pale blue-gray serrated saz leaves containing cloud bands against a blue ground are intertwined with split-leaf palmettes reserved in white and painted in green and rosettes. A black guard stripe forma a border on the two horizontal edges.
16th century.
5.75 x 11.6 in. {14.8 x 29.7 cm.}
c.f. Porter, V., Islamic Tiles, pub. Interlink Books, 1995. p.118, No.111.
Ref: British Museum Coll.1895. 6-3.135
Petsopoulis, Yanni {Edit}. Tulips, Arabesques and Turbans, Decorative Arts from the Ottoman Empire, Alexandria Press, London, 1982. p.96, plate.110.
Ernst, H. {edit} Ceramique Orientale, Pl.10
Condition: Trimmed.