Tile with Niche Design and Inscription early 14th century Inscribed: "He is God, beside whom there is no god, the Knower of the unseen and the seen. He is the Merciful, the Compassionate," (Qur'an 59: 22)This tile originally formed the upper part of a prayer niche, or mihrab. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, a family of potters headed by the patriarch Abu Tahir, and carrying the nisba (epithet) Kashani (indicating their origins in the city of Kashan) were active in the creation of large, luster-glazed composite panel mihrabs. Large-scale, niche-design tiles such as this one formed t
Tile with Niche Design and Inscription early 14th century Inscribed: "He is God, beside whom there is no god, the Knower of the unseen and the seen. He is the Merciful, the Compassionate," (Qur'an 59: 22)This tile originally formed the upper part of a prayer niche, or mihrab. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, a family of potters headed by the patriarch Abu Tahir, and carrying the nisba (epithet) Kashani (indicating their origins in the city of Kashan) were active in the creation of large, luster-glazed composite panel mihrabs. Large-scale, niche-design tiles such as this one formed the centerpiece of the groupings these potters created for mosques and madrasas throughout the Tile with Niche Design and Inscription 450361
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