Kashan kilns
Star Tile from Imamzadeh Yahya with Central Tree (fragment)
1259
Scroll
Kashan kilns
Star Tile from Imamzadeh Yahya with Central Tree (fragment)
1259
Physical Qualities
Fritware with gold lustre decoration over white glaze, 12 x 6 1/4 in. (30.5 x 15.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen in Memory of Adelyn D. Breeskin
Object Number
2013.215
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
Extended Loans IN
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Wilber, Donald N. , The Architecture of Islamic Iran, Greenwood Press, New York, 1969.
Anthony Welch, "Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World," Austin: University of Texas Press (in cooperation with The Asia Society, NY), 1979, pp. 116-117.
"Epigraphy iii. Arabic inscriptions in Persia," "Encyclopaedia Iranica," 7/10/2017 [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/epigraphy-iii]
Bloom, Jonathan M.- Blair, Sheila S., The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture Volume 2, New York, 2009.
Dieulafoy, Jane, La Perse, la Chaldée et la Susiane, Hachette, Paris, 1887.
Hutt, Antony, Islamic architecture Iran 1, London: Scorpion Publications Limited, 1977.
Wilber, Donald N. , The Architecture of Islamic Iran, Greenwood Press, New York, 1969.
