About the Artwork
Tile Inscribed "The Magnificent, the Beautiful"
ca. 1300
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Iranian
Islamic
Glazed fritware with cobalt and luster
Overall: 13 1/2 × 12 3/4 inches (34.3 × 32.4 cm)
Ceramics
Islamic Art
Founders Society Purchase
25.56
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in cobalt blue: [translated: The Magnificent, the Beautiful.]
Provenance
Daniel Z. Noorian (New York, New York, USA)
1925-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 7, no. 3 (1925): pp. 30-34, p. 32 (ill.) (reversed).
Peck, Elsie H. "Like the Light of the Sun: Islamic Luster-Painted Ceramics," Bulletin of the DIA 71, no. 1/2 (1997): 16 (fig. 1, 23), cover (ill.).
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Islamic, Iranian, Tile Inscribed "The Magnificent, the Beautiful", ca. 1300, glazed fritware with cobalt and luster. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 25.56.
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