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A KASHAN MOULDED COBALT BLUE AND TURQUOISE GLAZED INSCRIPTION TILE
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A KASHAN MOULDED COBALT BLUE AND TURQUOISE GLAZED INSCRIPTION TILE

CENTRAL IRAN, DATED 1 JUMADA AH 711/1 SEPTEMBER 1311 AD

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A KASHAN MOULDED COBALT BLUE AND TURQUOISE GLAZED INSCRIPTION TILE
CENTRAL IRAN, DATED 1 JUMADA AH 711/1 SEPTEMBER 1311 AD
The lower part of a two-tile mihrab or gravestone, the cobalt blue field with four lines of strong moulded white thuluth between turquoise glazed raised columns, the sides with a similar thuluth inscription running vertically, repaired breaks, silvery iridescence in places, metal frame
18½ x 26in. (47 x 66cm.)
Literature
Zick-Nissen, Johanna (et al): Islamische Keramik, Düsseldorf, 1973, no.185, p.138.
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Lot Essay

The inscriptions are from the Qu'ran, surat al-duha (xciii), parts vv. 1, 6-7, and 9-11. It is dated jumadi al-akhir, 711 October-November, 1311 AD.

The upper part of a blue ground mihrab tile executed onth e same scale as this tile, but with arabesques within an inscription, dated eleven years later than this tile, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Carboni, Stefano and Masuya, Tomoko: Persian Tiles, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1993, no.25, p.30).

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