Pentagonal tile with floral decoration
14th century
Medium/TechniqueFritware (stonepaste), white slip with polychrome decoration within black wax resist outlines (cuerda seca) under transparent glaze
DimensionsHeight x width: 14 × 17.8 cm (5 1/2 × 7 in.)
Credit LineEverett Fund
Accession number86.79
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Provenance1886, purchased by the MFA from Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (b.1837-d.1914), Burlington, VT.
late 19th–early 20th century
late 18th–19th century
Islamic I (7th–10th century)
17th–18th century
probably 19th century
1725–1775