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Of square form, decorated in cobalt blue, turquoise and golden brown on a cream ground, with a simurgh against a foliate ground to the centre, a frieze of flowerheads and vegetal motifs to upper border, 33.7cm across, 33.8cm high including frame
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Literature:
White, Mary, Living at the Whites' House, Vol. 4, 2023, p.226.
For a similar tile, see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. no. 12.49.4. This comparable tile is thought to originate from Takht-i Sulayman, a thirteenth-century Ilkhanid palace located near Tabriz.
The simurgh is a mythical bird who features prominently in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, which tells the story of the beginnings of Persia. The use of the phoenix form to visualise simurgh demonstrates the growing Chinese influence instigated by the Mongol invasion earlier in the thirteenth century.
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