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Country of Origin: Ottoman
Empire
Date of Origin
Circa A.D.1550
Use: rug
JBOC Comments:
Auction Catalogue Description:
Sotheby's Auctions » Arts of the Islamic World
» lot 47
Sale L03221
TWO HEXAGONAL 'DOME OF THE ROCK' POTTERY TILES,
JERUSALEM, CIRCA A.D.1550
London, New Bond Street 1,200—1,500 GBP
Session 1
15 Oct 03 10:30 AM
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium:
5,760 GBP
MEASUREMENTS
measurements note
14.3cm., framed
DESCRIPTION
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
decorated in black under a transparent green
glaze with a stellar motif with six trefoil arms
CATALOGUE NOTE
Tiles of this type were employed in the Ottoman
renovation of the Dome of the Rock undertaken at
the behest of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in
the mid-sixteenth century. Similar tiles have
been sold in our rooms, 25 April 1991, lot 932,
and 22nd April 1999, lot 81. For the location of
related tiles on the exterior of the Dome of the
Rock, see Nuseibeh and Grabar 1996, frontispiece
and pp. 154-5.
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