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Location: Kashan, Iran
Materials: stonepaste ware, with chocolate lustre bleeding ruby over an opaque white glaze
Dimensions: 14.9cm (diameter)
Accession Number: POT 1477
Other Notes:
The six-pointed star tile shows a moon-faced dancer, barefoot with spotted trousers and a long-sleeved tunic above her waist pulled aside by her gestures. The ground bears a bird and half-palmettes in reserve. The unglazed back of the tile bears a partial ghost image from another six-pointed lustre tile.
Six-pointed star tiles, which are comparatively rare, would have been combined with hexagonal tiles, doubtless in contrasting colours, to give an all-over tessellation.
Bibliography:
J.M. Rogers, The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London 2010, cat.132, p.115.
