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Star tile with vegetal design
Ilkhanid period
1260-1300
Object Place: Northwestern Iran
Medium/Technique
Fritware, with whitened glaze, and with reduced luster decoration applied in second firing.
Dimensions
Length 31 cm.
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number09.318
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
DescriptionA large 8-pointed Kashan tile, painted in a monochrome brown luster with four plant forms arranged in a cross and with four smaller plant forms at the unoccupied corners. The design is primarily in reserve, but both the reserved white area and the luster ground are extensively decorated or textured by designs painted in luster or incised through the luster ground.