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A MOULDED LAJVARDINA CALLIGRAPHIC POTTERY TILE
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A MOULDED LAJVARDINA CALLIGRAPHIC POTTERY TILE

IRAN, 14TH CENTURY

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A MOULDED LAJVARDINA CALLIGRAPHIC POTTERY TILE
IRAN, 14TH CENTURY
Of rectangular form, the cobalt-blue ground with spiralling white enamel arabesques around a raised gilded inscription, outlined in brick-red, repaired break in centre, restoration to one corner
16 x 7¾in. (40.2 x 19.6cm.)
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拍品专文

The inscription is from one of two places in the Qur'an, either surat al-fussilat (XLI), parts of v.30 or surat al-ahqaq (XLVI), parts of v.13. Either reference indicates that the tile must come from a funerary building.

Five tiles from the same inscription are in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (Mikhail B. Piotrovsky and John Vrieze, Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, 2000, no.191, p.218).