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Two Kashan lustre moulded calligraphic pottery tiles Persia, 13th Century

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Two Kashan lustre moulded calligraphic pottery tiles Persia, 13th Century

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Two Kashan lustre moulded calligraphic pottery tiles
Persia, 13th Century
each of rectangular form, decorated in cobalt blue, turquoise and a golden brown lustre on a cream ground with inscriptions in thuluth on a ground of scrolling foliate tendrils, framed together
the tiles 56.4 x 21.4 cm.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Christie's, Islamic Art and Manuscripts, 10 October 2000, lot 232.
Private Belgian collection acquired at Mansour Gallery, London, on the 16th of October 2000, and thence by descent.

Inscriptions: Qur'an, Chapter XLI (Fusilat), parts of verses 30 and 31.

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