IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 17479 accession number: MAR.C.111-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 13 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, mould made, coated in a white glaze painted in blue under the glaze and lustre over the glaze Shape: eight pointed star-shaped tile with bevelled edges Upper surface: following the contours of the tile edge, an inscription is painted in lustre and bordered with blue or lustre lines. Painted in lustre in the centre of the tile, a palmette tree with leaves filled with dots and dashes, grows from a mound above a fish head; the ground is filled with lustre dashes. Glaze covers the surface and runs over the edges in sections. Lower surface: undecorated except for spots of glaze. title: tile LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17479 SUBJECTS ------------------- calligraphy plant calligraphy plant TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, mould made, coated in a white glaze painted in blue under the glaze and lustre over the glaze moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1250 - 1299 creation date earliest: 1250 creation date latest: 1299 culture: 13th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 1.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 15 dimension: Weight units: g value: 280 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.8 CITATIONS -------- Islamic Tiles The Art of the Islamic Tile --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/MAR_C_111_1912.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/mid_MAR_C_111_1912.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/MAR_C_111_1912.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa15/preview_MAR_C_111_1912.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels