A Timurid moulded cuerda seca pottery tile
Persia, circa 1450of convex form with two rows of moulded palmettes surmounted by a cylindrical section, decorated in cobalt-blue, turquoise, red, green and manganese on a white ground with four palmette cartouches containing flowerheads, above a band of undulating tendrils with pendant palmettes, mounted
52.3 x 15.5 x 9 cm.注脚Provenance
H.E. the Baron Paternotte de La Vaillée, Belgian ambassador to Jordan and Lebanon from 1967–1970, and thence by descent.