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Star tile with two ducks in foliage
Ilkhanid Dynasty
1300-1320
Object Place: probably Kashan, Iran
Medium/Technique
Fritware, with blue border on whitened glaze, with reduced brown luster decoration applied in second firing.
Dimensions
Longest 20.5 cm.
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number11.39
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
DescriptionAn 8-pointed Kashan tile with a luster-painted inscription of verses in the border. The central star shows two ducks or geese walking from left to right, the left-hand one having incompletely emerged from the border. Plants are growing around the birds, and there is a small fishpond below.
InscriptionsPersian verses, unread
ProvenanceBought by Denman Waldo Ross from Kelekian, in Cairo, for 6 pounds. Given to the MFA Mardh 2, 1911.