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Star Tile from Imamzadeh Yahya Decorated with Leaves (fragment)
Public Domain

Kashan kilns

Star Tile from Imamzadeh Yahya Decorated with Leaves (fragment)

1259

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Kashan kilns

Star Tile from Imamzadeh Yahya Decorated with Leaves (fragment)

1259

Physical Qualities Fritware with gold lustre decoration over white glaze, 12 1/4 x 6 1/8 in. (31.1 x 15.6 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Richard and Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen in Memory of Adelyn D. Breeskin
Object Number 2013.216
Made for the Shrine of Imamzadeh Yahya in Varamin, Iran.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2013 (on extended loan from 1957); Elizabeth Ettinghausen, Princeton, NJ; Richard S. Ettinghausen
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art Across Asia: West Asian Connections," July 19, 2017-October 19, 2019

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