Hexagonal tile
1250-1350
Object PlaceIslamic World
Medium/TechniqueFritware with minai type low-temperature decoration. Overglaze Ilkhanid enamels - the Mongol successors of the earlier mina'i ware - were often dominated by a dark blue ground, and have been called lajvardina wares, after the color of lapis lazuli. The present much brighter palette may be a later taste.
DimensionsLongest 11.5 cm.
Credit LineJohn Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund
Accession number26.232
On View
Not on viewClassificationsTiles
Collections
1250-1350
possibly 14th century
late 16th century
19th century
January 15, 1314 / 27 Ramadan 713
early 14th century
19th century
19th century
1988
15th–16th century
about 1880–85
about 1985