Cornice Tile

Image credit: The Khalili Collections

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The tile is decorated with a seated female figure under a cusped arch. The crowning frieze bears seated female figures holding cups in their right hands: one figure projects and would have overlapped the adjacent tile. The arch bears an indecipherable inscription. A related group of frieze tiles, bearing cusped arches with verses from Firdawsi's Shahnamah, is thought to be from Takht-i Sulayman, the summer palace built for Abaqa Khan in the 1270s, high in the mountains of north-west Iran. Takht-i Sulayman is the best-preserved Ilkhanid secular building and its tiles, incidentally, are among the earliest recorded examples of the use of motifs from Chinese sources in Ilkhanid art.

The Khalili Collections

London

Title

Cornice Tile

Date

1200–1250

Medium

stonepaste body, with moulded relief decoration & lustre over an opaque glaze stained cobalt blue & turquoise

Accession number

224

Work type

Sculpture

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The Khalili Collections

London, Greater London England

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