IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 17489 accession number: C.23-1934 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 22 June 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: pinkish fritware, mould made; the upper surface decorated in blue and turquoise under a white glaze onto which brown lustre is painted. Shape: eight pointed star-shaped tile Decoration: around the exterior, contained within blue lines nashki script is painted in lustre. In the centre, reserved in lustre, two birds perch back to back in a paradise tree highlighted in blue and turquoise against a background of dotted scrolls. Beneath the tree a stylised fish is also reserved in lustre against an identical background. object type: fritware painted in blue, turquoise and lustre under or on a white glaze title: tile NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the collection of the late Henry Wallis. On the back there is a rectangular label printed in black 'LENT BY/' stamped in purple 'H WALLIS ES'/ printed in black 'No.' written in black ink '89'. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17489 SUBJECTS ------------------- birds paradise tree perching birds paradise tree perching TECHNIQUES ---------- pinkish fritware, mould made; the upper surface painted in blue and turquoise under a white glaze onto which is painted in brown lustre moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1267 - 1267 creation date earliest: 1267 creation date latest: 1267 culture: 13th Century, second half CREATORS -------- maker: Ali ibn Muhammad DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 1.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Curious Variations on Ceramic Themes, Geometrical and Zoomorphic Forms CITATIONS -------- The Godman Collection. Persian Ceramic Art Belonging to Mr F. DuCane Godman F.R.S., with examples from other collections. The Thirteenth Century Lustred Wall-Tiles Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Twenty-sixth Annual Report, 1934 Le problème des ateliers d’étoiles de faïence lustrée Some Lustre Painted Tiles from Kashan, of the 13th and Early 14th Centuries Persian Lustre Ware Islamic Star Patterns Islamic Tiles Perpetual Glory Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Harvey B. 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