Maker:
Unknown; potter
Collection:
H.S. Reitlinger
Category:
glazed earthenware
Name(s):
tile
Islamic pottery; category
monochrome glazed ware; category
Other Name:
eight-pointed star-shape tile
Date:
circa 1200 — circa 1399
School/Style:
Il-Khanid
Period:
13th-14th Century
Description(s):
earthenware covered with a turquoise glaze
earthenware, mould made, covered on the upper surface with a pitted and cracked turquoise glaze
Shape: eight pointed star tile with bevelled edges
Upper surface: covered with a turquoise glaze that runs over onto the edges
Underside: undecorated except for small patches of glaze, probably from another object in the kiln.
Production
Place:
Central Asia
Production
Place (legacy):
Central Asia, potter, region
Technique(s):
moulding; whole
glazing (coating); upper surface; turquoise, pitted and cracked
Material(s):
earthenware; whole
glaze; upper surface; turquoise, pitted and cracked
Technique
Description:
earthenware, mould made, covered on the upper surface with a pitted and cracked turquoise glaze
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 1.1, cm
width, whole, 12.9, cm
weight, whole, 209, g
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1950; Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Provenance:
H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Acquisition Credit:
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transfered from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Inscription(s):
inscription; on the underside; in black ink; 14098; hand written directly onto the surface; old object number
label; on the upper surface; printed in black and written in pencil; '100' printed in black and ' /16' written in pencil below; circular paper label; old dealers's label - used on other tiles
Documentation:
Porter, Venetia. 1995. Islamic Tiles.London: British Museum Pressp. 32-61
Cf. star shaped tile panel but in lustre see fig. 17 (p. 33), 19 (p. 35), 21 (p. 36). Ref. on tiles in 12th -14th century Iran, Anatolia and Syria
Related Object(s):
Accession:
Object Number: C.407-1991
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 17518; input: 2000-12-14; modified: 2012-10-26)
Permanent
Identifier:
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