AN OTTOMAN BORDER TILE, PROBABLY FROM THE DOME OF THE ROCK, JERUSALEM, MID-16TH CENTURY, underglaze painted fritware, of rectangular form, decorated in black, turquoise and cobalt blue with a reversing trefoil merlon design with stylised floral arabesques, thin turquoise bands above and below, 9.4 x 23.4 x 3.8cm Provenance: Adda Collection, Alexandria, first half 20th century; Christie's London, 31 March 2009, lot 133. Private collection, London Published: Millner 2015, fig. 6.140, p.306 The distinctive colour palette is characteristic both of tiles on the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and of those on several buildings in Aleppo. The characteristic 'apple' green, so readily associated with the Ottoman tiles of Damascus is little seen in either of these other cities. The thickness is unusual but not entirely unknown, and it drawsparisons with a group of similarly decorated thick square tiles attributed to Aleppo (see Millner 2015, , p.274).