Star-shaped tile with an inscription and a bird
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
c. 1290 - c. 1311
Star-shaped quartz-fritware tile, painted in underglaze blue, green-blue, and lustre with a text in Persian or Arabic script, reserved against a blue ground, and a bird and floral scrolls reserved in lustre.
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-1992-38; its record gives material recorded as glaze, earthenware, cobalt (mineral), luster (textile), quartz; technique vitrification, paint, fired, formed; measurements diameter 20.5 cm x thickness 1.4 cm. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- glaze, earthenware, cobalt (mineral), luster (textile), quartz
- Technique
- vitrification, paint, fired, formed
- Measurements
- diameter 20.5 cm x thickness 1.4 cm
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 20.5 cm x thickness 1.4 cm
Identification
- Original title
- Stervormige tegel met een opschrift en een vogel
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-1992-38
- Museum classification
- stertegel · tile
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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