Description
This beautiful rectangular shaped underglaze polychrome painted frit-ware tile with moulded decoration, depicting young seated crowned princes in a natural landscape with exotic birds hovering in the sky.
The tile’s top is decorated on white ground border with meandering vine and palmettes stems.
This finely made tile was probably produced at the workshop of the tile master Ali Mohammed Isfahani in Tehran which was mainly producing very high-quality tiles for decorating the Qajar buildings, monuments and palaces, such as the Gulistan Palace in Tehran.
Dimensions
29.5 cm * 26 cm.
The thickness of the tile is 2.5 cm.
Condition
Very Good
Provence
The European Art Market.
References
References:
For similar decorated Tehran & Isfahan tiles please see the following:
Revealing the Unseen, New Perspectives on Qajar Art, edited by Gwenaelle Fellinger with Melanie Gibson, Gingko Library Art Series, The Louver Edition, ISBN: Musee du Louvre 978-2-35031-727-4, First published in 2021.
For other similar examples please see
L’ empire des Roses (The Empire of Roses), Chefs-d’oeuvre de l’art Persan Du XIX E Siecle (Masterpieces of Persian Art of the 19th Centaury), Musee Du Louvre –Lens, 2018, ISBN: 978-2-36838-048-2.
Please see the various related Tehran produced moulded tiles, lots identification Nos. 292-299, catalogued on pages 305-309.
For another related 19th. Century Tehran moulded tiles produced during the Qajar Dynasty please see. Persia Art Collecting the Arts of Iran for the V& A. BY Moya Carey, the V&A Publishing, ISBN: 978 1 85177 933 8, First Published by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2017.
For various Qajar Dynasty moulded tiles produced in Isfahan or Tehran please see lots 153 & 154 illustrated on pages 162 & 163.
For another related tile decorated with two Royal youth on horseback on a hunting scene also hunting boars from the same period please see the tile belonging to the Art Gallery of South Australia.
For other similar Tehran Moulded tiles at the Royal Golestan Palace in Tehran, please see, Persian Painted Tiles, by Hadi Saif, Catalogue Nos. 145-149.
For other similar Tehran Moulded tiles, please see, Beyond the Palace Walls, Islamic Art from The State Hermitage Museum, Islamic Art in A World Context, Edited by Mikhail B. Piotrrovsky and Anton D. Pritula, National Museums of Scotland, lot 164, pages, 167-168.
