TWO KASHAN MOULDED POTTERY INSCRIPTION TILES

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TWO KASHAN MOULDED POTTERY INSCRIPTION TILES
PERSIA, LATE 13TH/EARLY 14TH CENTURY

Each of rectangular form, pierced with a circular opening at one point, the lustre ground with scrolling turquoise arabesques and white flowering vine around a raised cobalt-blue thuluth inscription, the interior of the circular aperture glazed white, the outer and lower edges of the tiles with stylised lustre kufic on a white ground. each with repaired clean breaks
8¼ x 16½in. (21 x 42cm.) (2)

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World Islamic Civilisation, Islamic Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 1993-October 1994

拍品專文

The inscription is not continuous. One is inscribed: bismillah a(l-rahman). The other is inscribed with part of sura xcvi, al-'Alaq, v.3.
The use for which these tiles were originally intended is unclear. The fact that two of the sides are decorated indicates that they were probably meant for a piece of mosque furniture rather than as wall revetments. The circular aperture is apparently unknown in other Kashan tiles and must have been created to accomodate part of the furniture structure.