Tile
1860-1870 (made)
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Tile, glazed fritware, moulded design painted in black outline with details in turquoise and manganese purple, depicting flowering poppy plants, reserved against dark blue ground.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, moulded and painted. Tile corner damaged. |
| Brief description | Middle East, Ceramic, Tile; Tile, moulded fritware, depicting stylised poppy foliage on blue ground, Isfahan, Iran, 1860-1870 |
| Physical description | Tile, glazed fritware, moulded design painted in black outline with details in turquoise and manganese purple, depicting flowering poppy plants, reserved against dark blue ground. |
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| Object history | This tile was bought as part of a much larger consignment of Iranian art objects for the South Kensington Museum (today the V&A) by Robert Murdoch Smith in Tehran, 1876. The vendor was Jules Richard, a French art-dealer based in Iran from 1844. Between 1875 and 1889, he was the South Kensington Museum's principal source of Iranian art objects, purchased via the Museum's agent Murdoch Smith. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Moya Carey, Persian Art. Collecting the Arts of Iran for the V&A (London: V&A, 2018)
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1500-1876 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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