Floor Tile from Qajar Tehran
Tile
1850-1870 (made)
1850-1870 (made)
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Tile, central design of turquoise lobed medallion, with four blue pendants radiating out to the corners, and smaller half-flowers on the edges (forming flower rosettes when the tiles are laid out together in repeat), on white background
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Title | Floor Tile from Qajar Tehran |
Materials and techniques | Earthenware, tin-opacified white slip, painted in cobalt blue, turquoise, pink and yellow glazes with black outline |
Brief description | Middle East, Ceramic, Tile; Tile, glazed earthenware, central design of turquoise lobed medallion, with four blue pendants radiating out to the corners, and smaller half-flowers on the edges (forming flower rosettes when the tiles are laid out together in repeat), on white background, Tehran, Iran, 1850-1870 |
Physical description | Tile, central design of turquoise lobed medallion, with four blue pendants radiating out to the corners, and smaller half-flowers on the edges (forming flower rosettes when the tiles are laid out together in repeat), on white background |
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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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Accession number | 1531:93-1876 |
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Record created | July 12, 2013 |
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