Frieze Tile with Inscription

Location: Kashan, Iran

Materials: stonepaste body, with moulded relief decoration and lustre over an opaque glaze stained cobalt blue and turquoise

Dimensions: 45 x 41cm

Accession Number: POT 1677

Other Notes:

The broad central field contains a raised inscription in thulth, reading, ‘… of the emigration (hijrah) of the Chosen Prophet’. This suggests that the tile was at the end of a dated inscription.

Bibliography:

J.M. Rogers, The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London 2010, cat.235, p.195.