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Object Type: tile
Museum number: G.486
Description: Cuerda seca star tile, made of stonepaste. Decorated in cobalt blue, black, red, white and gold with stylised peonies.
Cultures/periods: Timurid dynasty
Production date: 15thC(mid)
Production place: Made for: Khargird, Madrasat al-Ghiyathiyah (1442-1446)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Khargird
Materials: stonepaste
Technique: cuerda seca
Dimensions: Diameter: 39.50 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: This is one of a number of such tiles in Western collections from the Madrasat al-Ghiyathiyah at Khargird (1442-1446). The building was constructed for Ghiyath al-Din Pir Ahmad Khvafi, one of the viziers of Timur's son Shah Rukh.
Bibliographic references: Porter 1995 / Islamic Tiles (fig.63); Hayward 1976 / The Arts of Islam (393); Akbarnia et al 2018 / The Islamic World: a History in Objects (p.136, fig.3); Albukhary 2018 / The Making of the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World (pp.108-109)
Location: On display (G42/od)
Subjects: flower
Associated names: Associated with: Shah Rukh ibn Timur (The building was constructed for Ghiyath al-Din Pir Ahmad Khvaffi - one of Shah Rukh's viziers.)
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Miss Edith Godman
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Frederick Du Cane Godman
Acquisition date: 1983
Department: Middle East
Registration number: G.486

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