Large tile, stone-paste, moulded, opaque white glaze with underglaze turquoise and blue and overglaze lustre

Kashan was a major centre of tile production from the beginning of the thirteenth through the middle of the fourteenth century, many of them, like this tile, decorated in lustre. After a first firing copper and silver oxides are applied to form part of the decoration. The object is then re-fired in...

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