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Cross-shaped tile from the shrine of Imamzada Yahyah

Ilkhanid Dynasty
October–December 1262
Object Place: Kashan, Iran

Medium/Technique Composite body (quartz, clay and glass frit), glazed in opaque white and overglaze painted in lustre
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number16.320
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsTiles

InscriptionsQuranic inscriptions around border.
Provenance16.320-332 bought of C. Filippo. 1916, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA (Accession date: Oct. 5, 1916)