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Star tile with eight figures
Seljuq Dynasty
1200-1220
Object Place: Northwestern Iran
Medium/Technique
Fritware, with reduced luster decoration on a whitened glaze, given a second firing in a reducing atmosphere.
Dimensions
Length 31 cm.
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number09.610
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
DescriptionA large Kashan star tile, with a border inscription and field in brown luster. The central portion, painted in reserve, shows four figures in a line above an elaborate duckpond. Behind the group is another smaller group of four. Costumes are elaborately decorated with painted lines while the luster field is broken up by scratching through the pigment.