IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 17497 accession number: C.43-1924 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, mould made, coated in a white glaze painted in blue and lustre Shape: roughly square tile with straight edges and decoration in relief. Upper surface: on the upper edge a wide symmetrical frieze of dotted palmettes and split leaves are reserved on a lustred ground incised with spirals and commas. Painted in blue across the centre of the tile, a tri-lobed arch contains a verse from the Shahnama reserved on a lustred background containing dotted trefoils. In the spandrels and below the arch, further lustre split leaves are painted on a background of lustre scrolls. On bottom edge a narrow chevron pattern is painted in lustre. Turquoise is spotted at points on the surface; lustre decoration and glaze spill over onto the edges. Lower surface: undecorated object type: fritware coated in a white glaze painted in blue and lustre title: tile NOTES ----- type: history note value: Possibly from the palace complex at Takht-i Sulayman; lent by Captain Hugh Calverley in June 1919; given by Mrs E.L. Calverley in December 1924. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given Mrs E.L. Calverley STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17497 SUBJECTS ------------------- foliage arch foliage arch TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, mould made, coated in a white glaze painted in blue and lustre moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1280 - 1289 creation date earliest: 1280 creation date latest: 1289 culture: 13th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 1.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 29.2 dimension: Weight units: g value: 2722 dimension: Width units: cm value: 30 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Opening of the Pembroke Centre for Persian Studies CITATIONS -------- Some Lustre Painted Tiles from Kashan, of the 13th and Early 14th Centuries Persian Lustre Ware Islamic Tiles Les Frises Du Shāh Nāme Dans L'Architecture Iranienne Sous Les Ilkhān IlKhanid Courtly Life --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_43_1924_1_201209_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 948 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_c_43_1924_1_201209_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 463 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_43_1924_1_201209_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 948 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_c_43_1924_1_201209_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 231 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_43_1924_2_201209_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 978 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_c_43_1924_2_201209_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 478 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_43_1924_2_201209_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 978 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_c_43_1924_2_201209_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 239 pixels width: 250 pixels