A BLUE AND TURQUOISE-PAINTED MULTAN POTTERY TILE
Sindh, Punjab, Pakistan, 19th century

Of square shape, the earthenware body painted in turquoise and cobalt blue against a white ground, decorated with a central recessed frieze with half of a cusped cartouche in-filled with a gadrooned Mughal-style spouted ewer and a serving charger with fruit, framed within two bands of lobed cartouches with white floral designs on a deep cobalt blue ground, 37.7cm x 37cm.