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Lot 301
  • 301

A Kashan turquoise-glaze moulded pottery tile, Persia, 12th/13th century

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • ceramic
of rectangular form, moulded with part of a naskh inscription below a raised stylised palmette border, under a turquoise glaze

Provenance

Ex-collection Xavier Guerrand-Hermès

Exhibited

Calligraphies en terres d'Islam, Musée Champollion, Figeac, 6 April-3 June 2012

Literature

Y. Porter, Calligraphies en terres d'Islam, Musée Champollion, Figeac, 2012, p.26

Condition

In good condition, intact, some encrustation near inscription, some abrasion to upper and lower edges, very light hairline craquelure to glaze, as viewed.
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Catalogue Note

inscriptions

A single word: [ri]dawn a ‘Garden’
Possibly a quote from the Qur’an, when followed by an alif, as it is here, it appears three times.