Shaped tile
1250-1350
Object PlaceIslamic World
Medium/TechniqueFritware with minai type low-temperature decoration. Overglaze Ilkhanid enamels - the Mongol successors of the earlier minai 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 reflect a later taste.
DimensionsLongest 7.5 cm.
Credit LineJohn Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund
Accession number26.233
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1250-1350
possibly 14th century
late 16th century
13th–14th century
Late 17th century
1841
18th century
17th–early 18th century