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An image of Description: Tile. Very pale buff stone-paste (fritware), the upper surface covered with a thin wash of off-white slip and painted in blue, green, turquoise and manganese with black outlines, under a clear bubbly glaze. Square. Part of a large spray of formal flowers and foliage, continue on C.2-1929.
Production Place: Syria, Damascus
Dimensions: height: (whole): 25.0 cm, width: (whole): 24.5 cm
Period: second half of the 16th Century, Ottoman 
Date: 1560 to 1600

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Description: Tile. Very pale buff stone-paste (fritware), the upper surface covered with a thin wash of off-white slip and painted in blue, green, turquoise and manganese with black outlines, under a clear bubbly glaze. Square. Part of a large spray of formal flowers and foliage, continue on C.2-1929. Production Place: Syria, Damascus Dimensions: height: (whole): 25.0 cm, width: (whole): 24.5 cm Period: second half of the 16th Century, Ottoman Date: 1560 to 1600

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  • Accession Number: C.1-1929
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 760 pixels
  • Image width: 733 pixels
  • Processed with: ACD Systems Digital Imaging
  • Filesize: 111.12kB

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