A RARE SAFAVID POTTERY TOMBSTONE TILE

SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 1056/1646-47 AD

Details

A RARE SAFAVID POTTERY TOMBSTONE TILE
SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 1056/1646-47 AD
Of rectangular form with triangular top, inscribed with four lines of black nasta'liq script, each within a black cartouche on white ground, the tympanun decorated with a painted pottery candlestick, topped with a face, cypresses to the sides between floral garlands
14 x 10in. (35.5 x 25.5cm.)

Provenance

Collection of Rafi Y. Mottahedeh (1901-78), New York, acquired before 1978

Literature

Richard Ettinghausen, Islamic Art from Princeton Collections, Princeton University Art Museum, 1974, no. 128

Exhibited

Islamic Art from Princeton Collections, Princeton University Art Museum, May 20-June 30, 1974

Lot Essay

The inscriptions comprise a couplet from the Bustan of Sa'di, a couplet from Asrarnama of 'Attar followed by death of the Sayyada Salih Begum Aqanah, daughter of Ghulam 'Ali 'Arabi at the dawn of the blessed month of shab'an [1] 056/August 1646 AD.

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