Lot 3. A Kashan calligraphic lustre pottery tile, Persia, circa 1275-1325; 20.8 by 40.7cm. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 GBP. Lot sold 21,250 GBP. Photo Sotheby's.

the fritware body with calligraphic inscription in thuluth moulded in relief, painted underglaze in cobalt blue on a overglaze lustre ground of spiralling foliate tendrils with turquoise highlights

Inscriptions: Qur’an, chapter LXXVI ( al-Insan), part of verse 16.