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Eight-pointed star-shaped tile
Bucharest, Romania
The National Museum of Art of Romania
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Hegira 8th century / AD 14th century
86284 / 1534
Fritware, moulded decoration, painted in lustre on an opaque white glaze with accents of blue and green
Height: 21cm, Width: 21cm
Ilkhanid
Iran
Tile in the shape of an eight-pointed star with a blue border. It is decorated with an eight-pointed star featuring a design in low relief: a running deer in a field of vegetation reserved in white against the lustre-painted ground. The text of the first Sura, Fatiha (The Opener), in Arabic, is inscribed between the parallel sides of the concentric polygons. The inscription, in naskhi characters, is painted in lustre on a white ground.
Stylistic analysis
Purchased by the Ministry of Culture in 1978. Transferred to the Museum in 1979.
Stylistic analysis
Dunca, M., Scrierea în arta islamică, Bucharest: National Museum of Art of Romania, 2000: 60, cat. no. 34.
Komaroff, L. and Carboni, S., The Legacy of Genghis Khan. Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.
Mircea Dunca "Eight-pointed star-shaped tile" in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;rm;Mus21;5;en
Prepared by: Mircea Dunca
MWNF Working Number: RO1 05
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