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SYRIAN TABLETTE in carved wood with a top decorated with four ceramic tiles Late 16th-century fleuron decoration The four tiles with ceramic variations are painted in blue on a white or cream background. Diagonal fleurons formed by palmettes in an arabesque composition with composite flowers. Dim. tiles 18 x 18 cm (wear, small chips, scratches, joints in poor condition) Table size 46 x 42.5 x 41.5 cm (pitting and wormholes on wood) This decoration is typical of the tiles executed for the restoration of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem in the mid-16th century by Sultan Suleiman. It became the model for other series in Damascus and Aleppo. See the recent study by A. Millner, Damascus Tiles, Mamluk and Ottoman, architectural Ceramics from Syria, Prestel, London, 2015, pp. 274-275. fig. 6.71 to 6.75. See also J. Carswsell, Kutahya tiles and Pottery..., London, 1972, pl. 9, n°4 and 4 a, plates 15, n°83, and plates 22 and 23.
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SYRIAN TABLETTE in carved wood with a top decorated with four ceramic tiles Late 16th-century fleuron decoration The four tiles with ceramic variations are painted in blue on a white or cream background. Diagonal fleurons formed by palmettes in an arabesque composition with composite flowers. Dim. tiles 18 x 18 cm (wear, small chips, scratches, joints in poor condition) Table size 46 x 42.5 x 41.5 cm (pitting and wormholes on wood) This decoration is typical of the tiles executed for the restoration of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem in the mid-16th century by Sultan Suleiman. It became the model for other series in Damascus and Aleppo. See the recent study by A. Millner, Damascus Tiles, Mamluk and Ottoman, architectural Ceramics from Syria, Prestel, London, 2015, pp. 274-275. fig. 6.71 to 6.75. See also J. Carswsell, Kutahya tiles and Pottery..., London, 1972, pl. 9, n°4 and 4 a, plates 15, n°83, and plates 22 and 23.
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