A Rare Six-pointed Kashan Lustre Star Tile, Persia, 13th Century

of stellar form, painted in a dark brown lustre with two confronting long-legged birds reserved on a lustre scroll ground

loss to one of the six points, chips to extremities and abrasion to lustre surface, as viewed
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This unusual tile relates to a stellar tile in the Keir Collection with a similar pair of confronting 'Kashan birds' reserved on a solid lustre ground (see Grube 1976, p.249, no.185). A further related example with a gazelle reserved on a lustre ground scratched through with scrolls is in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington (Atil 1973, pp.80-81, no.34)