Fritware eight-pointed star tile, Il-Khanid

An image of Fritware. Tile. Ali ibn Muhammad (potter, possibly), Kashan. Eight pointed star-shaped tile. Decoration: around the exterior, contained within blue lines nashki script is painted in lustre. In the centre, reserved in lustre, two birds perch back to back in a paradise tree highlighted in blue and turquoise against a background of dotted scrolls. Beneath the tree a stylised fish is also reserved in lustre against an identical background. Pinkish fritware, mould made; the upper surface painted in blue and turquoise under a white glaze onto which is painted in brown lustre. Width (whole) 20.5 cm, depth (whole) 1.3 cm, 1267. Il-Khanid. Islamic.

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Fritware. Tile. Ali ibn Muhammad (potter, possibly), Kashan. Eight pointed star-shaped tile. Decoration: around the exterior, contained within blue lines nashki script is painted in lustre. In the centre, reserved in lustre, two birds perch back to back in a paradise tree highlighted in blue and turquoise against a background of dotted scrolls. Beneath the tree a stylised fish is also reserved in lustre against an identical background. Pinkish fritware, mould made; the upper surface painted in blue and turquoise under a white glaze onto which is painted in brown lustre. Width (whole) 20.5 cm, depth (whole) 1.3 cm, 1267. Il-Khanid. Islamic.

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Accession Number: C.23-1934
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 882 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 717.51kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2010:08:03 11:41:25

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13th Century Ali ibn Muhammad birds fish Fitz_AA fritware glazed Il-Khanid Iranian Islamic Kashan Style lustre lustre ware lustreware Medieval Muslim nashki naskh nesih paradise tree patterned pottery script scrolls stars stylised tiles trees

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