Tile
1260-65
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Fritware tile, star shaped, flower decoration in white on a ground of metallic lustre, surrounded by a border of Arabic inscriptions in lustre colour.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Fritware with lustre decoration over the glaze |
| Brief description | Ceramic; Fritware tile, star shaped, lustre decoration over the glaze, central design reserved on lustre, with Arabic inscriptions quoting the Quran around borders, probably Kashan, Iran, 1260-65 |
| Physical description | Fritware tile, star shaped, flower decoration in white on a ground of metallic lustre, surrounded by a border of Arabic inscriptions in lustre colour. |
| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | (Quran: suras al-Fatiha (1), and al-Ikhlas (112).) |
| Production | This tile is very similar to those from Imamzade Yahya in Veramin (near Tehran), many of which are dated 1262. |
| Subject depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Moya Carey, Persian Art. Collecting the Arts of Iran for the V&A, London, 2017, p.99. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1072-1875 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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