- Title
- Tile panel for a spandrel
- Culture
- Safavid
- Date Made
- 17th century
- Medium
- Fritware cuerda seca technique
- Dimensions
- overall: 45 1/4 x 41 1/2 in. (114.935 x 105.41 cm)
Weight: 75 lb. (34 kg)
- Accession Number
- M.73.5.4
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Islamic
- Curatorial Notes
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.
