Kashan kilns
Star Tile with Flowers and Inscription
1237
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Kashan kilns
Star Tile with Flowers and Inscription
1237
Physical Qualities
Fritware with blue, black and gold luster decoration over white glaze, 8 1/2 in. Diam. (21.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen in Memory of Adelyn D. Breeskin
Object Number
2013.214
Kilns at Kashan continued to produce high quality luster-decorated tiles until the
mid-14th century.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2013 (on extended loan from 1957); Elizabeth Ettinghausen, Princeton, NJ; Richard S. Ettinghausen
Extended Loans IN
Art Across Asia: West Asian Connections
Asian Rotations 2024
"Earthenware, Ceramics and Tiles at the Smithsonian Museum," Smithsonian Museum of Asian Arts, 1/20/2011 [http://islamic-arts.org/2011/smithsonian-museums-ceramic-collection/] (S1973.16)
"Epigraphy iii. Arabic inscriptions in Persia," "Encyclopaedia Iranica," 7/10/2017 [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/epigraphy-iii]
"Epigraphy iii. Arabic inscriptions in Persia," "Encyclopaedia Iranica," 7/10/2017 [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/epigraphy-iii]
Inscribed: Dated Rajab 738
On View at the BMA
