Tile within partial verse about The Godly Month (Ramadan)
Date13th century
Label TextThe graceful cobalt blue inscription, set against intricate metallic luster-glaze foliage on a white ground, formed part of a much longer inscription around a mihrab or in a shrine or palace. The writing references Ramadan, observed over the ninth month of the Muslim calendar. This holy period is a time of physical and spiritual purification, including fasting during daylight hours, praying and reading the Qur’an together at the mosque, and quiet contemplation.
Object number36.51
Provenance[S. Franses, London]; purchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum (Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection), January 8, 1936
Exhibition HistoryCleveland, Ohio. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World, May 31 - October 5, 2014 (Denver Museum of Nature and Science, November 29, 2014 - May 3, 2015; exhibition was organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, although this work was not shown there)Published ReferencesPope, Arthur Upham. Masterpieces of Persian Art. New York: The Dryden Press, 1945. Pl. 80, reproduced p. 116.
Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections. Seattle, Wash.: Seattle Art Museum, 1951. P. 18.
Rome, Palazzo Brancaccio, Mostra d'arte Iranica/Exhibition of Iranian Art, 1956. Pl. LVIII.
Nakai, Ghods. Sept Mille Ans d'Art en Iran. Paris: Petit Palais, 1961; p. 181, no. 995, pl. CXIII.
Rogers, Millard B. Engagement Book: Iranian Art in the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, Wash.: Seattle Art Museum, 1973. Fig. 35.Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions14 1/4 x 13 5/8 x 3/4 in. (36.2 x 34.61 x 1.91 cm)
MediumStonepaste; molded and in-glaze painted in blue and turquoise and luster-painted on opaque white glaze
Persian
12th to early 13th century
Object number: 38.139
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