Kashan kilns
Star Tile with Cyprus Tree, Parrots, Fishpond, and Shahnama Inscription
1288
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Kashan kilns
Star Tile with Cyprus Tree, Parrots, Fishpond, and Shahnama Inscription
1288
Physical Qualities
Fritware with luster, turquoise, and blue decoration on white glaze, 8 in. Diam. (20.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen in Memory of Adelyn D. Breeskin
Object Number
2013.221
Bird in tree at center between two parrots, flowers and leaves, and fish beneath tree reserved against the lustre ground; "script" border.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2013 (on extended loan from 1957); Elizabeth Ettinghausen, Princeton, NJ; Richard S. Ettinghausen
"Persian Exhibition," New York, 1940, ER/3.
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art Across Asia: West Asian Connections," July 19, 2017-October 19, 2019
Collection installation, "Asia. The Art & Business of Writing", Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art Across Asia: West Asian Connections," July 19, 2017-October 19, 2019
Collection installation, "Asia. The Art & Business of Writing", Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
Inscribed: Dated H. 688
On View: Levy Gallery 1, Case 02/B
