Tile with Pious Inscription
Islamic
1250–1350
- Medium
- Fritware with molded decoration, painted in blue under opaque turquoise glaze
- Dimensions
- 19.4 × 35.8 × 3.7 cm (7 5/8 × 14 1/8 × 1 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- earthenware
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
Islamic (culture or style)earthenwareceramicsasian artfritwareinorganic materialceramicarchitectural fragmentceramic tile
About
Bands of inscription adorn monuments throughout the Islamic world. This tile was previously part of longer architectural panel containing pious inscriptions, undoubtedly attached to a religious monument. The script used here, thuluth, is known for its elongated horizontal extensions at the ends of letters. The thuluth script first emerged in the 11th century and has remained one of the most popular forms of calligraphy.
