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Star tile with gazelle
Ilkhanid period
1260-1280
Object Place: Kashan, Iran
Medium/Technique
Fritware, with whitened glaze, painted in luster pigment reduced in a second firing.
Dimensions
Diam: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number09.317
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
DescriptionA medium sized Kashan star tile painted in red-brown luster with a calligraphic poetry border and central scene of a gazelle in a field of large stylized flowers with a small fishpond below - all of these main elements in reserve. The white, reserved areas are painted with details and the luster areas scratched to create texture - as is typical in the fully developed Kashan style.
ProvenanceDenman Waldo Ross Collection. Given to the MFA Aug. 26, 1909