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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
Flower on spotted ground; inscription around 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/1
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art Across Asia: West Asian Connections," July 19, 2017-October 19, 2019

Inscribed: Dated Rajab 738

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