CENTRAL IRAN, EARLY 14TH CENTURY

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A KASHAN MOULDED LUSTRE, COBALT-BLUE AND TURQUOISE POTTERY INSCRIPTION TILE
CENTRAL IRAN, EARLY 14TH CENTURY
Divided into two registers, the larger lower one with spiralling tendrils, perching birds and foxes around a raised blue thuluth inscription, the upper register with moulded interlaced arabesques, lower border of stylised kufic, one repaired break, very slight repainting
14½in x 14in.cm (37cm x 35.5cm.)

Provenance

Yeganeh, London and Spain, 1960

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Lot Essay

The Persian inscription can possibly be translated: " ... On the way, that will become ... "

This tile comes from "Frieze 3" defined by Dr Melikian Chirvani (Melikian-Chirvani, A.S.: Les frises du shah name dans l'architecture iranienne sous les Ilkhan, Paris, 1996, pp.39-43, figs.27-30). For a slightly smaller very similar tile please see lot 1269.

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