Tile
1300-1320 (made)
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This tile is from a mosque at Natanz in central Iran. It originally formed part of a frieze with a quotation from the Qur'an.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware with opaque cobalt-blue glaze and lustre-painted decoration |
| Brief description | Frieze tile, fritware, decorated with a moulded inscription (probably from the Qur’an), painted in cobalt blue; the background is painted in golden-brown lustre, Iran (probably Kashan), early 14th century. |
| Physical description | Frieze tile (one of a set of forty), fritware, rectangular with raised inscription in Naskh script coloured in cobalt blue, surrounded by a background of fine scrollwork in half palmettes executed in lustre, glazed. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | لاَّ تُغْنِ عَنِّي شَفَا
(Qur’anic inscription part of surah 36: 23) |
| Summary | This tile is from a mosque at Natanz in central Iran. It originally formed part of a frieze with a quotation from the Qur'an. |
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| Accession number | 1494:11-1876 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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