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Star tile with radial design
Ilkhanid period
1260-1320
Object Place: Kashan, Iran
Medium/Technique
Light colored fritware, with blue design and turquoise accents on whitened glaze, and with reduced brown luster decoration applied in a second firing.
Dimensions
Longest 19.5 cm.
Credit Line
Everett Fund
Accession Number86.77
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
DescriptionA medium-sized 8-pointed Kashan tile with a luster border inscription surrounding a radial lattice in blue with luster painting of vegetal forms in reserve.
Provenance1886, purchased by the MFA from Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (b.1837-d.1914), Burlington, VT.