Tile 18.
Syria {Damascus}
An extremely fine quality, stone paste corner border tile, painted in underglaze cobalt blue, manganese purple and apple green. Delicately drawn flowers and foliage float around a central blue and green saz leaf and are reserved against a milk white ground. A delicate repeating scroll design in white reserved against a cobalt blue ground form a border on two sides. {See Tile 22 in Part I, now in the Detroit Institute of Art, for a similar border}.
16th century.
9.25 x 10.25 in. {23.3 x 26 cm.}
c.f. Ettinghausen, R. Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum, 1972. One of the group of Damascus tiles with the use of apple green mentioned on p.104 when referring to the Lockwood de Forest collection.
Condition: Intact.