This Islamic fish tile is a richly illustrated Islamic-style tile featuring a shoal of fish swimming through a star-shaped medallion, framed by a sky-blue border of scrolling white arabesque. More narrative than graphic, it feels like a miniature painting held inside sacred geometry.

From De Ferranti’s Islamic Tile category, this piece leans into the storytelling side of Islamic ceramic tradition – stylised nature, patterned framing, and hand-painted character. The central star cartouche is filled with multiple fish in layered reds, browns, and blues, each outlined and detailed to give individuality and movement. Small aquatic plants and floral bursts punctuate the scene, adding rhythm and balance across the pale ground.

A fine ornamental band traces the star’s edge, tightening the composition before it opens into the outer border: a luminous blue field with white scrolling foliage and mirrored flourishes at the corners. The palette is cooler and more nuanced than the cobalt version, with soft blue washes, ink-like linework, and a slightly antique feel that suits both traditional and eclectic interiors.

Ideal as a feature tile, inset panel, or part of a larger decorative scheme, and available for bespoke commissions with adapted colourways, scenes, or border treatments.

Islamic Fish Tile with Narrative Detail

The full composition places fish of different scale and direction within a clearly bounded star, creating the sense of an active shoal rather than a formal emblem. The close detail reveals pale blue, aubergine, brown and red brushwork, small aquatic plants and fine cross-hatched marks. The pale ground allows this narrative centre to remain legible, while the sky-blue perimeter separates it from surrounding surfaces. As the tile has a fixed orientation, it is best positioned through a measured panel drawing rather than treated as an indiscriminate repeat.

Within the collection, Three Fish Star Medallion – Islamic Ceramic Tile offers a bolder and more symmetrical aquatic composition, while Peacock Garden – Iznik Tile provides a related figurative panel in monochrome cobalt.

Elsewhere at De Ferranti, the Twin Fish and Wave Stone Mosaic Panel interprets aquatic movement through stone mosaic, and the Koi & Cloud Basin applies painted fish imagery to a sculptural ceramic object. These references can help develop a coordinated aquatic theme across different surfaces without relying on one repeated image.

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