the first of square form, the second rectangular, each decorated in cobalt blue, turquoise and green with black outline on a white ground with vines, bunches of grapes and tulips within partial lattices containing floral vines and floral sprays .

Provenance: Private UK Collection.
Formerly in the collection of William Hawkins Wilson (1866-1956), a British Physiologist and member of the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University from 1895-1928 who later became the dean of the Kasr El Aini Hospital; gifted to his brother and thence by descent.

Note: An almost identical tile is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (object number C.4G-1928). Other variations on the vine trellis pattern can be seen in the prayer hall of the Darwishiyya Mosque in Damascus dated to 1571, and in the Arab Hall at Leighton House (see Arthur Millner, Damascus Tiles, London, 2015, pp. 142-143). 

Bonhams. ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART INCLUDING MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN ART, 24 Apr 2018, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET