A SQUARE DAMASCUS POTTERY TILE WITH ARABESQUE
Ottoman Syria, 17th century

Of square shape, part of a larger repeating design, underglaze painted in green, cobalt blue and turquoise in black outlines against a white ground, decorated with an interlace of stylised lotus flower heads, rosette sprays and cusped cartouches containing intricate arabesque patterns of split palmettes, 22cm x 23.8cm.

Provenance: Bonhams London, 5 July 2006, lot 198.

For more information on Damascus pottery tiles, please see A. Millner, Damascus Tiles: Mamluk and Ottoman architectural ceramics from Syria, London, 2015. An almost identical Damascus tile with the same chromatic arrangement was offered at Sotheby's London, Online Only: Eclectic sale, 18 May 2020, lot 50.