Two Mughal Cuerda Seca Tiles, Lahore or Kashmir, 17th Century

each of square form decorated in yellow, green, brown, manganese and blue, outlined in black with a scrolling tendril issuing composite saz and floral palmettes terminating in floral sprays, bordered by a band of floral vine reserved on a green ground

in good overall condition, nibbles to extremities, minor areas of loss and cracquelure to glaze with associated retouching, as viewed
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A Mughal tile in the British Museum with a saz leaf of similar Ottoman inspiration within an arabesque of lotuses and split-leaf palmettes, is illustrated in Venetia Porter, Islamic Tiles, London, 1995, P. 91, fig. 83. See Robert Skelton et al, The Indian Heritage: Court Life and Arts under Mughal Rule, London, 1982, pp. 26-27, nos. 5-10., for a discussion of Mughal tiles in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.