AN ILKHANID MOULDED COBALT-BLUE, TURQUOISE AND LUSTRE POTTERY TILE
PROBABLY FROM TAKHT-I SULAYMAN, WEST IRAN, CIRCA 1270-80
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AN ILKHANID MOULDED COBALT-BLUE, TURQUOISE AND LUSTRE POTTERY TILE
PROBABLY FROM TAKHT-I SULAYMAN, WEST IRAN, CIRCA 1270-80
Of square form, the main lower register with a cusped arch motif with verse from the Shahnama, floral arabesques and birds with cloud bands in each spandrel, floral arabesque at centre, upper band of extended quatrefoils and geometric shapes, minor losses to corners, otherwise intact
12 x 11 5/8in. (30.5 x 29.5cm.)
来源
UK private collection since 1972, thence by descent
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For a discussion on similar tiles with inscriptions form the Shahnama see A.S. Melikian-Chirvani, Les Frises du Shah Name dans L'Architecture Iranienne sous les Ilkhan, in Studia Iranica, Cahier 18, Paris, 1996