id:			94963
accession number:	1915.524
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.524
updated:		2024-03-26 01:56:09.999000

Luster Wall Tile with a Couple, 1266. Iran, Kashan, Ilkhanid period (1256-1353). Fritware with luster-painted design; overall: 19.5 x 16 cm (7 11/16 x 6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust by exchange 1915.524

title:				Luster Wall Tile with a Couple
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creation date:			1266
creation date earliest:		1266
creation date latest:		1266
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creditline:			Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust by exchange
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culture:	Iran, Kashan, Ilkhanid period (1256-1353)
technique:	fritware with luster-painted design
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Ceramic
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measurements: Overall: 19.5 x 16 cm (7 11/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Top reading R to L:
(1) Rubāʿī: 
TEXT:
zulfat ki hizār zangī afzūn dārad——————bar turk-i khitā ʿazm-i shabīkhūn dārad
v'ān zangī laʿl duzd-i mutvāri-rā——————āvikht-i dār ki basi khūn dārad.

TRANSLATION:
Your tresses, which possess over a thousand Zangis (Zanjis, black slave-soldiers, i.e. more than a thousand strands of hair)
Are bent on a surprise night time charge against the Cathay Turks (handsome slave-soldier boys redolent of musk)
And (as for) that ruby stealing (disheveled) Zangi in hiding
Have him hanged for he has plenty of blood on his hands.

(2) Rubāʿī: these verses start immediately after the last verses, on the left hand side going down:
TEXT:
zulfat ki chu afʿī pay-i sharr mi-gardad———dāni pas-i pushtat bi-chi bar migardad
chun dīd ki laʿl to [zumurrud bigrift————vahshī shud u bar kuh u kamar migardad.]
TRANSLATION:
Your hair (tresses), which viper-like is bent on mischief, do you know why it returns behind your back?
When it saw that your ruby (lips) has (now) an emerald (down appearing above the lips), it became wild (lost all senses) and wanders on the mountain side.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Persian Art Before and After the Mongol Conquest
	opening date:   1959-04-09T05:00:00
	<i>Persian Art Before and After the Mongol Conquest</i>. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (April 9-May 17, 1959).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Dikran G. Kelekian [1867–1951], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1915
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1915–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 704
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n128

	<em>Persian Art Before And After the Mongol Conquest.: [Exhibition] April 9-May 17, 1959. the University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor</em>. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Museum of Art, 1959.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 106, p. 39; Reproduced: p. 64
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 212
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n236

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 212
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n236

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 268
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n288

	Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. <em>The Middle Ages in 50 Objects</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 130-133; Reproduced: p. 131
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IMAGES

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