timurid cuerde seca pottery tile
Timurid Cuerda Seca Pottery Tile
Timurid Cuerda Seca Pottery Tile
Timurid Cuerda Seca Pottery Tile
Timurid Cuerda Seca Pottery Tile
Timurid Cuerda Seca Pottery Tile
Timurid Cuerda Seca Pottery Tile

Timurid Cuerda Seca Pottery Tile

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A very pleasant and colorful pottery tile, of square form and with two rectangular ‘grips’ on the back in order to make it easier to fix on a wall as part of the decoration of a building. The surface is covered by a vivid and contrasting polychrome glaze with a floral decoration showing scrolling tendrils and budding floral sprays: on an opaque white ground (based on tin oxide) we see a turquoise blue (based on copper oxide), a cobalt blue, green (based on copper oxide) and a vivid yellow (based on tin and lead oxides). To prevent the colors from fusing together during the firing, the colors are separated from each other by a thin line of manganese carbonate: the ‘cuerda seca’. The 12mm thick body is red clay.

Damages at the corners and chipped off body. 19,2 x 19,2 cm, thickness of the tile 12 mm (with extensions 24 mm). Weight 1061 gram. Timurid period, central Asia (Samarkand?), 15th century.

Further reading: Bernard O’Kane, The Development of Iranian Cuerda Seca Tiles and the Transfer of Tilework Technology in Blair S. and Bloom J., And Diverse Are Their Hues: Color in Islamic Art and Culture, New Haven 2011, p.175-203.

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