Persian art
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Tile, frieze, ca. 1270–80; Ilkhanid period (1206–1353)
Made in Probably Kashan, IranFritware, molded, painted in luster and blue under a transparent glaze; H. 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm) W: 14 1/4 inl (36.2 cm)Rogers Fund, 1912 (12.49.4)

Description
This tile, with its bold design of a phoenix soaring on a background of cloud bands and its lotus border, is an excellent example of the Chinese influence on Iranian iconography following the thirteenth-century Mongol conquest. The tile, one of a long frieze with alternating phoenixes and dragons, most likely was once set on the walls of the Ilkhanid summer palace known as Takht-i Suleiman ("The Throne of Solomon") in northwestern Iran, built in the 1270s.

Provenance
Takht-i Sulaiman, Iran 









~ Good poetry makes the universe reveal its 'secret' ~


                                                                               --  Hafiz

 

                                                              The Tulip

 

Perhaps the tulip knows the fickleness

Of  Fortune's smile, for on her stalk's green shaft

She bears a wine cup through the wilderness

 

 

                                                                      - Hafiz

                                                                      - Trans: G. Bell (1897)




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