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1381-2 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tile with lightly convex surface, earthenware under coloured glazes, showing a fragment of a complex inscription in white against an arabesque pattern on a dark-blue ground. The inscription is in two registers. The upper register is represented by letters in an ornamented Eastern Kufic style (also called New Style), while the dominant lower register, which was probably in the thuluth style, is represented only by part of a curved stroke, in the bottom right corner. The arabesque pattern consists of scrolling tendrils set with half-palmettes, in turquoise and white. All the motifs are outlined in black.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware under coloured enamels applied in the <i>cuerda seca</i> technique.
Brief description
Tile with lightly convex surface, from the drum of a dome, earthenware under coloured glazes, probably Konya, Turkey, 1381-2.
Physical description
Tile with lightly convex surface, earthenware under coloured glazes, showing a fragment of a complex inscription in white against an arabesque pattern on a dark-blue ground. The inscription is in two registers. The upper register is represented by letters in an ornamented Eastern Kufic style (also called New Style), while the dominant lower register, which was probably in the thuluth style, is represented only by part of a curved stroke, in the bottom right corner. The arabesque pattern consists of scrolling tendrils set with half-palmettes, in turquoise and white. All the motifs are outlined in black.
Dimensions
  • Height: 40.3cm
  • Width: 26.7cm
Credit line
Bought from Hagop Kevorkian, along with 1108 & 1109-1898, for £180.
Subjects depicted
Associated object
1109-1898 (Part)
Bibliographic reference
Michael Meinecke, Faiencedekoration seldschukischer Sakralbauten in Kleinasien, published as Istanbuler Mitteilungen, Beiheft XIII, Tübingen: Wasmuth, 1976, Teil 2, pp. 346-50.
Collection
Accession number
1109A-1898

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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