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A Kashan monochrome moulded pottery Tile
Persia, 12th Century

21 April 2015, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £4,750 inc. premium

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A Kashan monochrome moulded pottery Tile
Persia, 12th Century

of rectangular form, moulded and decorated in a turquoise glaze with a band of inscription with a perching bird, above a band of trefoils surrounded by interlaced vines
31 x 21 cm.

Footnotes

Provenance: Palais Galliera, 3 December, 1965.

Published: B. Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica, London, 1959, pl.7, no.29.

Inscriptions: part of a Persian verse, possibly: kani keh in negin, 'The mine from which this gem'.

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