An Ilkhanid lustre pottery Star Tile Persia, late 13th/ 14th Century
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Persia, late 13th/ 14th Century
Persia, late 13th/ 14th Century
20.3 cm. diam.
Footnotes
The inscription is: "Perpetual Glory and Prosperity".
This lot belongs to a group of pictorial tiles that was produced in Persia during the Ilkhanid period. Unfortunately the building for which this tile was made is not known, but there are examples from the same series in the British Museum, London (Venetia Porter, Islamic Tiles, London, 1995, fig. 17) and the Keir Collection, Richmond (Ernst J. Grube, Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976, no. 190).
There is a tile with the same scene in The State Hermitage Museum, St. Peterburg (Mikhail B. Piotrovsky) et al, Earthly beauty, Heavenly Art: Arts of Islam, Amsterdam, 1999, no. 156).