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Lot Essay
Tiles such as this are known to have been placed in combination with others on the west iwan in the Ghiyathiyya Madrasa, Khargird (Th. W. Lentz, and G.D. Lowry, Timur and the Princely Vision Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century, Los Angeles, 1989, p. 90 and p. 333). One half tile still remains in situ in the entrance hall (L. Golombek and D. Wilber, The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan, Princeton, 1988, II, pl. 233). This building was finished in 846/1442-43 for Ghiyath al-Din Pir Ahmad Khvafi, one of the viziers of the Timurid Shah Rukh. The building was begun by the architect Qavam al-Din Shirazi who died in 1438, and was then completed by Ghiyath al-Din Shirazi
A similar tile of the Achterbergh Collection is on loan in the Princessehof, Leeuwarden.
Identical tiles can be found in the David Collection (K. von Folsach, Art from the World of Islam in the David Collection, Copenhagen, 2001, pl.226, p.174), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (S. Carboni and T. Masuya: Persian Tiles, New York, 1993, no.34, p.39, the note to which discusses further details and examples), and the British Museum (V. Porter, Islamic Tiles, London, 1995, pl.63, p.69), amongst a number of others in public and private collections.
Another of these tiles was sold at Christie's London, 27 April 2004, lot 204.
A similar tile of the Achterbergh Collection is on loan in the Princessehof, Leeuwarden.
Identical tiles can be found in the David Collection (K. von Folsach, Art from the World of Islam in the David Collection, Copenhagen, 2001, pl.226, p.174), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (S. Carboni and T. Masuya: Persian Tiles, New York, 1993, no.34, p.39, the note to which discusses further details and examples), and the British Museum (V. Porter, Islamic Tiles, London, 1995, pl.63, p.69), amongst a number of others in public and private collections.
Another of these tiles was sold at Christie's London, 27 April 2004, lot 204.