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
possibly 14th century
Adrien Tournachon (known as Nadar jeune)
1861
Porcelain: 1628–44, mounts: early 18th century
Porcelain: 1628–44, mounts: early 18th century
late 12th–early 13th century
1st century A.D.
Kajikawa School
mid-18th century
Late 17th century