Lot Essay
Similar tiles were sold at Sotheby's 27 April 1995, Indian and Islamic Art, Lot 288
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A GROUP OF THREE HEXAGONAL AND FIVE TIMURID BORDER TILES, IRAN, 15TH CENTURY
Of buff coloured ware, painted in black under a brilliant crackled turquoise glaze, with a central six-petalled rosette from which spiral half-flowers and leaves emerge, half flowers at the edge of each of the points of the tiles - 5 in. (13cm.) diam (hexagonal) and 5 5/8 in. (15cm.) long (border) (8)
Of buff coloured ware, painted in black under a brilliant crackled turquoise glaze, with a central six-petalled rosette from which spiral half-flowers and leaves emerge, half flowers at the edge of each of the points of the tiles - 5 in. (13cm.) diam (hexagonal) and 5 5/8 in. (15cm.) long (border) (8)
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