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Tilescirca 1385

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Four fragmentary ceramic border tiles arranged in a row, decorated with continuous geometric strapwork pattern in turquoise, cobalt blue, and chartreuse yellow-green with blue eight-pointed stars centered with small rosettes

Unknown, Tiles, circa 1385, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Tiles
Place Made
Uzbekistan, Samarqand
Date Made
circa 1385
Medium
Earthenware, molded and glaze-painted
Dimensions
5 3/4 x 9 3/16 in. (14.6 x 23.33 cm)
Credit Line
The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2002.1.266a-b
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Islamic

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