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Pentagonal tile with floral decoration
Timurid period
14th century
Object Place: Central Asia
Medium/Technique
Fritware (stonepaste), white slip with polychrome decoration within black wax resist outlines (cuerda seca) under transparent glaze
Dimensions
Height x width: 14 × 17.8 cm (5 1/2 × 7 in.)
Credit Line
Everett Fund
Accession Number86.79
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
DescriptionPentagonal-shaped tile. Design traced with black wax that dissolves during firing and prevents the colors from running in the cuerda-seca (dry cord) technique; white abstracted leaf with red slip decoration on cobalt blue ground, enclosing a gilded four-petal rosette sprouting inward-turned double turquoise sprays; a turquoise border follows the shape of the tile
Provenance1886, purchased by the MFA from Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (b.1837-d.1914), Burlington, VT.