Tile
ca. 1400 (made)
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Tile of glazed buff-coloured fritware, painted in colours on a white slip and decorated with gilding, traces of which still remain. In the form of an eight-pointed star, and painted with two interlaced quatrefoil devices formed of conventional foliage and strapwork on a dark blue ground. Round the edge is a turquoise-blue border.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware with underglaze decoration, painted over white slip and gilded |
| Brief description | Ceramic, Tile; Tile of glazed buff-coloured fritware, in the form of an eight-pointed star, painted in colours on a white slip and decorated with gilding, Iran, ca. 1400. |
| Physical description | Tile of glazed buff-coloured fritware, painted in colours on a white slip and decorated with gilding, traces of which still remain. In the form of an eight-pointed star, and painted with two interlaced quatrefoil devices formed of conventional foliage and strapwork on a dark blue ground. Round the edge is a turquoise-blue border. |
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| Object history | From the tomb of Sheykh Badehouddin Noury at Khojent. |
| Production | register |
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| Accession number | 2096-1899 |
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| Record created | March 17, 2009 |
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