Tile
14th century (made)
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Tile of glazed buff-coloured fritware, painted in copper lustre and blue. Star-shaped and decorated with a symmetrical design of flowers and foliage reserved in white on a lustred ground and with a border composed of a Persian inscription reserved on a blue ground.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, painted with lustre over the glaze |
| Brief description | Star-shaped tile of glazed buff-coloured fritware, painted in copper lustre and blue, Iran, 1306/07 |
| Physical description | Tile of glazed buff-coloured fritware, painted in copper lustre and blue. Star-shaped and decorated with a symmetrical design of flowers and foliage reserved in white on a lustred ground and with a border composed of a Persian inscription reserved on a blue ground. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | The opening lines of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh:
بنام خداوند جان و خرد/ کزین برتر اندیشه برنگذرد/ خداوند جان و خداوند رای / خداوند روزی ده رهنمای / ز نام و |
| Object history | From the dado of the Shrine of Shaykh Abd al-Samad, Natanz. Bought from the Willett Collection. |
| Production | register |
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| Accession number | 403-1905 |
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| Record created | March 23, 2009 |
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