Tehran Floor Tile
Tile
1850-1870 (made)
1850-1870 (made)
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Tile, radiating design with a half-star star on white background, and quarter-stars repeated in two corners, with border of white cartouches on turquoise ground
Object details
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Title | Tehran Floor Tile (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Buff-coloured earthenware, heavily-crackled tin-opacified white glaze, polychrome pigments |
Brief description | Middle East, Ceramic, Tile; Tile, glazed earthenware, radiating design with a half-star on white background, and quarter-stars repeated in two corners, with border of white cartouches on turquoise ground, one of a set of six, Tehran, Iran, 1850-1870 |
Physical description | Tile, radiating design with a half-star star on white background, and quarter-stars repeated in two corners, with border of white cartouches on turquoise ground |
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Object history | This colourful tile was bought in Tehran in 1876, for the South Kensington Museum (today the V&A). The Museum's agent Robert Murdoch Smith purchased a large collection of 154 "modern tiles", from the art-dealer Jules Richard, and described the group as "a collection of upwards of 100 modern tiles of different patterns such as are used for decorating walls and floors at the present day" (V&A Archives, 9 July 1875). Jules Richard had organised the tiles in 25 groups, of matching or mixed sets, showing the wonderful stylistic range of Qajar interior architecture: these range from geometric patterns, trellis repeats, landscape vignettes, architectonic compositions, bouquets of roses, Chinese famille rose porcelain styles, and even imitations of silk ikat pattern. In 1951, seven of the tiles were transferred to the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent. |
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Other number | Jules Richard group 20 |
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Accession number | 1531:137-1876 |
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Record created | June 24, 2013 |
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