A COBALT BLUE AND COPPER LUSTRE-PAINTED STAR POTTERY TILE
Possibly Kashan, Iran, 13th - 14th century

Of typical eight-pointed star-like shape, decorated with a copper lustre-painted central motif of possible Judaica inspiration with a stylised menorah to the bottom and ten vertical lines at the top reminiscent of the ten commandments, all within a calligraphic border inscribed with poetic verses, and a further cobalt blue border around the edge, to the back an old inventory sticker describing the tile as lustre stonepaste from Persia, 16th century and providing a speculative attribution to the Shah Abbas period and provenance from the Shah Mosque in Isfahan (1612), 20cm diam.