Tile
early 14th century (made)
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Tile of glazed grey fritware, star-shaped, and painted in the centre with metallic lustre on a white ground with a symmetrical scroll design. The border contains an inscription on a blue ground.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, painted with lustre over the glaze |
| Brief description | Tile of glazed grey fritware, star-shaped, and painted in the centre with metallic lustre on a white slip, Kashan, early 14th century. |
| Physical description | Tile of glazed grey fritware, star-shaped, and painted in the centre with metallic lustre on a white ground with a symmetrical scroll design. The border contains an inscription on a blue ground. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | ای گرسنه مهر تو سیران جهان / ترسان ز فاتو دلیران جهان/ با چشم تو آهوان چه دارندبه دشت/ ای زلف تو پایبند شیران جهان (The inscription is a quatrain from Jalal al-Din Rumi's Divan-e Shams. This version of the poem shows slight differences from the canonical reading, demonstrating how poems of this kind were flexible and often subject to small changes by those reciting, or inscribing, them. ) |
| Production | register |
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| Accession number | 350-1896 |
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| Record created | March 9, 2009 |
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