Object Details
Culture
Iran
Date
ca. 14th century
Medium
Stone-paste ware with alkaline glaze
Dimensions
16 × 17 × 1 inches (40.6 × 43.2 × 2.5 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Michael A. McCarthy, Class of 1956
Object
Number
2002.126 a,b
Inscribed: Mohamed al Husaini al Masakin al Kazmi(possibly the name of a Shi’ite imam)The twelfth (…)
Inscribed: Mohamed al Husaini al Masakin al Kazmi(possibly the name of a Shi’ite imam)The twelfth to fourteenth centuries saw a tremendous production of tiles by Kashan potters for the decoration of secular and religious buildings, especially funerary monuments. The decoration of these tiles consists of inscriptions in relief against a background of cobalt blue that refer to Shi’ite imams. The tiles would have originally decorated a mosque or shrine and been part of a vast tiled wall surface.
