Tile
early 14th century (made)
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Tile in the shape of an eight-pointed star, fritware. The central field is decorated in reserve against a ground of golden-brown lustre. A six-petalled flower at the centre with a dab of turquoise, with small palmette leaves radiating around it. Four of the points of the star are partitioned off by curling split palmette branches outlined in cobalt blue, with smaller palmettes inside the compartments. The other four points have small flowers inside them. Around the edge is a border inscription in cursive script, containing the 45th to 47th verses of the 18th chapter of the Koran, in lustre on a white ground, and outlined at top and bottom with cobalt blue lines.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware with painted decoration in cobalt, turquoise and metallic lustre |
| Brief description | Tile, fritware with painted decoration in cobalt, turquoise and lustre, Iran, (Kashan), early 14th century |
| Physical description | Tile in the shape of an eight-pointed star, fritware. The central field is decorated in reserve against a ground of golden-brown lustre. A six-petalled flower at the centre with a dab of turquoise, with small palmette leaves radiating around it. Four of the points of the star are partitioned off by curling split palmette branches outlined in cobalt blue, with smaller palmettes inside the compartments. The other four points have small flowers inside them. Around the edge is a border inscription in cursive script, containing the 45th to 47th verses of the 18th chapter of the Koran, in lustre on a white ground, and outlined at top and bottom with cobalt blue lines. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | واضرب لهم مثل الحياة الدنيا كماء انزلناه من السماء فاختلط به نبات الارض فاصبح هشيما تذروه الرياح وكان الله على كل شيء مقتدرا
المال والبنون زينة الحياة الدنيا والباقيات الصالحات خير عند ربك ثوابا وخير املا
ويوم نسير الجبال وترى الارض بارزة وحشرناهم
(Qur’anic inscription - part of surah 18, verses 45–47) |
| Object history | Bought £125 [920 to 1435-1892]. |
| Production | Inventory record |
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| Literary reference | Koran |
| Associated object | 1828B-1876 (Design) |
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| Accession number | 1024-1892 |
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| Record created | April 14, 2009 |
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