Object Details
- Description
- Wall-tile in eight-pointed star shape. Three points fractured and two chipped.
- Clay: soft, reddish.
- Glaze: deep turquoise-blue, crackled; partly covered with an earthy incrustation and having a brilliant iridescence.
- Decoration: modeled in the paste in relief.
- Provenance
- To 1909
- Vitali Madjar, Cairo, to 1909 [1]
- From 1909 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Vitali Madjar in 1909 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1962, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Vitali Madjar (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 12th-13th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stone-paste painted with turquoise glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 20 x 1.3 cm (7 7/8 x 1/2 in)
- Type
- Architectural Element
