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A KASHAN MOULDED LUSTRE AND BLUE GLAZED BORDER TILE FRAGMENT
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A KASHAN MOULDED LUSTRE AND BLUE GLAZED BORDER TILE FRAGMENT

IRAN, 14TH CENTURY

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A KASHAN MOULDED LUSTRE AND BLUE GLAZED BORDER TILE FRAGMENT
IRAN, 14TH CENTURY
The upper section of an inscription tile, the lustre ground moulded with a band of palmettes and feathery leaves, the details picked out in turquoise and cobalt-blue, lower edge ground down
4 x 14in. (10 x 35.5cm.)
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Lot Essay

A tile with the same upper frieze in the Cairo Museum is dated Ramadan 710/January-February 1311 (Melikian-Chirvani, A.S.: "Le frises du shah name dans l'architecture iranienne sous les ilkhan", Studia Iranica 18, Paris, 1996, p.51, referring to pl.37). The present example, in contrast to the one discussed by Melikian, includes turquoise with the lustre and cobalt-blue designs.

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