Tile Panel

Unknown

ca. 1430 · Stonepaste; modeled, polychrome painted under transparent glaze · Islamic Art

These tiles represent a ceramic type produced by the workshop of Ibn al-Ghaibi al‑Tawrizi, which operated out of Damascus in the early fifteenth century before relocating to Cairo. The panel is so similar in technique, composition, and style to one signed by Ghaibi and still extant in the funerary complex of Ghars al‑Din al‑Tawrizi (d. 1430) in Damascus that it probably came from that very building. The Museum holds more than a dozen sherds bearing the signature of this workshop, as well as a ceramic mosque lamp signed by the son of Ghaibi.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1430

Medium

Stonepaste; modeled, polychrome painted under transparent glaze

Department

Islamic Art

Credit line

Gift of Ralph D. Minasian, 2011