A GROUP OF POLYGONAL TIMURID CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILES

PROBABLY KHARGIRD, NORTH-EAST IRAN, 1442-3 AD

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A GROUP OF POLYGONAL TIMURID CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILES
PROBABLY KHARGIRD, NORTH-EAST IRAN, 1442-3 AD
Comprising one large star tile and twelve further smaller polygonal tiles including six hexagonal, two rectangular, two rhomboid and two octagonal tiles, each with painted cobalt-blue ground decorated with white arabesques interlaced with a similar turquoise tendrils linking manganese purple, red and gold flowerheads, plain turquoise border, each intact with some minor chips to edges
Star tile 13¼in. (33.7cm.) across

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EU private collection since before 1940

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Tiles such as this are known to have been placed in combination with others on the west iwan in the Ghiyathiyya Madrasa, Khargird (Thomas W. Lentz, and Glenn 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.