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Lustered Tile -- Two Men
Persian, Rhages, 13th–14th century

Islamic World
.32 d
Ceramic, Tile

Classification: Tiles
Type, sub-type: Tiles

Object is currently not on view

Cream colored and reddish brown lustre glaze with three streaks of turquoise. Two seated figures with intricate leaf scrolls in the background; a duck in relief between the two heads. Inscribed around edge. Two points broken. Persian inscription.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Denman Waldo Ross Collection, 1911
Accession number: 11.40


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