Large 8-pointed star tile

Seljuq Dynasty

1210–11

Object Place: Kashan, Iran

Medium/Technique Composite body) quartz, clay, and glass frit), glazed in opaque white and overglaze painted in lustre

Dimensions W: 27.4 cm (10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number17.509

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsTiles

Signed Signed by Abu Zaid

InscriptionsInscriptions around border, probably Persian verses.

ProvenanceLent by Denman W. Ross, August 19, 1912.
Made a gift Feb. 15, 1917.