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Star tile with man in garden
Persian
Ilkhanid
1260-1300
Object Place: Kashan, N W Iran
Medium/Technique
Fritware, with wide blue inscribed border on whitened glaze, and with reduced brown luster decoration applied in a second firing.
Dimensions
Longest 20.5 cm.
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund and funds donated by Edward Jackson Holmes
Accession Number31.731
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsTiles
DescriptionThe blue border of this Kashan tile bears a stylish but probably unreadable inscription in reserve. Within the central star, a man in a robe is shown reclining and surrounded by flowering plants.
InscriptionsBand of inscription around edge of tile.
ProvenanceBy 1931, purchased by Arthur Upham Pope for the MFA. (Accession Date: September 3, 1931)