Lot 49
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A COLOURED INLAID TURQUOISE GLASS RHOMBOID TILE
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A COLOURED INLAID TURQUOISE GLASS RHOMBOID TILE

PROBABLY SAMARRA, IRAQ, 8TH/9TH CENTURY

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A COLOURED INLAID TURQUOISE GLASS RHOMBOID TILE
PROBABLY SAMARRA, IRAQ, 8TH/9TH CENTURY
Of rhomboid form, the turquoise glass on the face trailed and marvered with white, blue, green and manganese waves, the reverse with a moulded bird, considerable iridescence on the moulded side, repaired breaks
6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) across
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Lot Essay

There are very few decorated glass tiles that have survived from the Early Islamic period. Among them are fragments of mosaic glass tiles in Berlin and in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Stefano Carboni, Glass of the Sultans, New York, 2001, no.61, p.148).

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