Tile panel for a spandrel

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Tile panel for a spandrel

Iran, Isfahan, Safavid, 17th century
Ceramics
Fritware cuerda seca technique
overall: 45 1/4 x 41 1/2 in. (114.935 x 105.41 cm) Weight: 75 lb. (34 kg)
The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky (M.73.5.4)
Art of the Middle East: Islamic and Contemporary
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

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Buildings in Isfahan, capital of the Safavid dynasty in the seventeenth century, were lavishly decorated with tilework. An innovation of this period, found in palaces and other secular structures, was the use of individually painted square tiles that were combined to form a larger pictorial scene. This tile panel is half of a pair of spandrels that was once set above an archway in a palatial pavilion known as the Hasht Behesht.
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Bibliography

  • Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.

  • Pal, Pratapaditya, ed.  Islamic Art:  The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection.  Los Angeles:  Museum Associates, 1973.

  • Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.

  • Pal, Pratapaditya, ed.  Islamic Art:  The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection.  Los Angeles:  Museum Associates, 1973.
  • Komaroff, Linda.  Islamic Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Los Angeles:  Museum Associates, 2005.
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