Islamic Tile in the Form of a Half-Star in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

Tile, half star

Object Name: Tile, star, fragment

Date: 13th century

Geography: Iran, Kashan

Medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted on an opaque white glaze under a transparent colorless glaze

Classification: Ceramic-Tiles

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1966

Accession Number: 66.95.5

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1400...

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Luster-painted tiles for the decoration of interiors often have poetry in the margin. This tile is dated "in the months of the year 616 [AD 1218-1219]"

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.