Ka'ba Tile

Production of ceramic tiles and vessels reached a peak under Ottoman court patronage in the sixteenth century. The court studio provided designs to semi-autonomous workshops in Izn...

This hexagonal tile, 9 1/4 inches across, shows a highly developed leaf and tendril decoration on a white slip. The colors, turquoise and dark blue, are characteristic of the earl...

An album leaf, this painting depicts a thatched-roof cottage set in a lush landscape. The cottage sits at the very center of the composition, nestled between a small lake in the fo...

The hexagonal tile contains a central white field filled with floral and animal motifs. The tile is decorated with underlaze painting in cobalt and turquoise slips. The surface o...

This fragmentary tile, reassembled from four pieces, depicts a narrative scene closely related to those in contemporary and later manuscript paintings.Through an archway, a couple ...

A polylobed medallion in the center of this tile holds a bust-length portrait of a painter named Husayn, also known as Ustad Husayn Kashi Saz, a known master tilemaker at the end o...

The tile is from the Imamzada Yahya shrine in Varamin. The inscriptions begin with the Basmala followed by Qurʾan 17:78-81. The date 660 H. (1261-1262) is inscribed on tile 1931.12...