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Lot Essay
The inscription is a part of a Persian verse, translating ".. going on ..."
This tile appears to be from the same original frieze as one in the British Museum (Porter, Venetia: Islamic Tiles, London, 1995, pl.45, p.51). These are very similar in all aspects of design to "Frieze 3" defined by Dr Melikian-Chirvani, but noticeably smaller in scale and therefore probably come from another related interior (Melikian-Chirvani, A.S.: Les frises du shah name dans l'architecture iranienne sous les Ilkhan, Paris, 1996, pp.39-43, figs.27-30). Please see also the note to lot 296.
This tile appears to be from the same original frieze as one in the British Museum (Porter, Venetia: Islamic Tiles, London, 1995, pl.45, p.51). These are very similar in all aspects of design to "Frieze 3" defined by Dr Melikian-Chirvani, but noticeably smaller in scale and therefore probably come from another related interior (Melikian-Chirvani, A.S.: Les frises du shah name dans l'architecture iranienne sous les Ilkhan, Paris, 1996, pp.39-43, figs.27-30). Please see also the note to lot 296.
