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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Tile Panel

ca. 1358 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Portion of a tilework border of yellowish sandstone, carved with a countersunk design and covered with turquoise-blue and white enamel colours. An Arabic inscription from the Koran in Naskhy characters forms the chief part of the decoration and begins with the invocation 'In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful', and the remainder is fragmentary. The characters are in white on a blue ground of interlacing volutes formed of foliated stems.


Object details

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Object type
Parts
This object consists of 8 parts.

  • Panel
  • Panel
  • Panel
  • Panel
  • Panel
  • Panel
  • Panel
  • Panel
Materials and techniques
Sandstone, carved and painted with enamels
Brief description
Portion of a tilework border of yellowish sandstone, carved with a countersunk design and covered with turquoise-blue and white enamel colours, Fathabad, ca. 1358.
Physical description
Portion of a tilework border of yellowish sandstone, carved with a countersunk design and covered with turquoise-blue and white enamel colours. An Arabic inscription from the Koran in Naskhy characters forms the chief part of the decoration and begins with the invocation 'In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful', and the remainder is fragmentary. The characters are in white on a blue ground of interlacing volutes formed of foliated stems.
Dimensions
  • Sight measure length: 193cm
  • Sight measure width: 44.5cm
  • Panel only, not fragments weight: 64kg
Object history
From the tomb of Bairam Khuli Khan at Fathabad, near Bokhara. Bought from Mr M Tahtadjian of Batoum (Georgia) in 1899.
Production
register
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
2032:1 to 8-1899

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Record createdMarch 17, 2009
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