A FINE KASHAN COBALT-BLUE AND WHITE MOULDED TILE of nearly square form from a massive inscription, the plain cobalt ground moulded with the upper part of an alif together with a shadda, fatha, and part of another letter, the shadda issuing a bold simple scrolling frond with split palmette terminal, late 13th/early 14th century (slight iridescence)

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A FINE KASHAN COBALT-BLUE AND WHITE MOULDED TILE of nearly square form from a massive inscription, the plain cobalt ground moulded with the upper part of an alif together with a shadda, fatha, and part of another letter, the shadda issuing a bold simple scrolling frond with split palmette terminal, late 13th/early 14th century (slight iridescence)
12 x 13¾ in. (30.5 x 35cm.)
Provenance
With Farhadi and Anavian, New York
Exhibited
Exhibition of Persian Art, New York 1940 (ref KH144)

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