Treasureful Tiles

A collection of tiles from around the world.

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Title: Tile Panel

Date: 18th century

Geography: Attributed to Syria

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Title: Tile from a Mihrab

Date: dated A.H. 722/ A.D. 1322–23

Museum Description:

This tile once formed part of a mihrab, or niche, facing Mecca, toward which prayer is directed in mosques. The inscription at its top includes a Qur'anic reference to the mihrab’s function, and provides the date of the tile’s manufacture in the fourteenth century. This surrounds the modeled vine and tendril motif executed with touches of black and turquoise. We must imagine that the interior walls of the building containing this mihrab were once covered in similar tiles, as was common during the Ilkhanid period in Iran.

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A Spanish arista tile panel, 16th century.

Source: christie’s.com

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Wall Tile, Persian, early 14th century, Saint Louis Art Museum: Islamic Art

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/13310/

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Libya

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Academy of Indian Philosophy 

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 Museum of Islamic Art, Athens

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Photo by Miguel Flores-Vianna

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Cairo Saliba St House & Sabil-kuttab of Amir ‘Abdullah (Katkhuda ‘Azaban) 1719 Ottoman Iznik Tiles in Relieving Arch over Sabil Egypt  @Bruce Allardice

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In al-Attarine Madrasa, Fes, Morocco.  Photos by Wim Swaan, 1960s, in the Getty:  Unpublished image 9

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