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Tile

1425-1475 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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 irregular hexagon. Painted with a palmette-shaped device surrounding a quatrefoil from which spring four symmetrical curving stems, on a dark blue ground. Round the edge is a turquoise-blue border.

Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware with underglaze decoration, painted over white slip and gilded
Brief description
Tile of glazed buff-coloured fritware, in the form of an irregular hexagon, 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 irregular hexagon. Painted with a palmette-shaped device surrounding a quatrefoil from which spring four symmetrical curving stems, on a dark blue ground. Round the edge is a turquoise-blue border.
Dimensions
  • Length: 12.7cm
  • Width: 11.8cm
  • Depth: 2.3cm
Style
Object history
From the tomb of Sheykh Badehouddin Noury at Khojent.
Production
register
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
2095-1899

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Record createdMarch 17, 2009
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