A Rare Frieze Tile in three segments with interlacing geometric pattern, Transoxiana (possibly Bukhara), late 14th century

consisting of three fritware tile segments carved with interlacing geometric designs stemming from central eight-pointed stars, decorated with turquoise, white, and purple glazes

ex-Collection Van Lier, Utrecht
ex-Croisier Collection, Switzerland

Céramiques du monde musulman, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, 1999.
Perpetual Glory. Medieval Islamic Ceramics From The Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.

Céramiques du monde musulman, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, 1999, p.107.
O. Pancaroglu, Perpetual Glory. Medieval Islamic Ceramics From The Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007, p.152, nos.102-04.

All three in fairly good condition, with some restoration on the carved decoration, some abrasion along edges and inside carved surface, each with two stickers on the reverse with suspension hoops for hanging, as viewed.
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A set of carved and glazed tiles of related design now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (inv. no. 584-1900) originate from the tomb of the Mongol ruler Buyan Quli Khan (r. 1348 to 1358), at Bukhara in Uzbekistan.

Buyan Quli Khan's mausoleum was covered throughout with such tiles carved in deep relief and glazed before firing. The turquoise glaze and complex geometric designs are characteristic of this type of ceramic.