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Lot 318†,R
A Kashan lustre pottery star tile
Persia, 12th/ 13th Century
18 – 26 May 2023, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £701.25 inc. premium

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A Kashan lustre pottery star tile
Persia, 12th/ 13th Century

in the form of an eight-pointed star, decorated in a brownish gold lustre on a cream ground with an inscription in thuluth script on a ground of vegetal interlace, surrounded by a border of pseudo-inscription
10.9 cm. diam.

Footnotes

Inscriptions: Undeciphered.

For two comparable tiles dated to the 14th Century and sold at Christie's, Paris, see Art des terres d'Islam, 5 November 2008, lot 255.

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