decorated with inscription painted in blue relief glaze, mounted, old auction labels to reverse.

Provenance: Ex-collection Sir Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017).
Drouot, Paris, 15 June 1948, lot 34 (as indicated by old auction label to reverse).

inscriptionsal-faqir ‘abd al-husayn ibn …. Haji ja’far khan mi’marbashi
‘The needy ‘Abd al-Husayn ibn …. Haji Ja’far Khan, the Chief architect’

NoteThe 'Abd al-Husayn referred to here was most probably the patron of this tile. There is one reference on Haji Ja’far, an architect who lived during the reign of Muzaffar al-Din Shah to the early Pahlavi dynasty (d.1934).

 Sotheby's Arts of the Islamic World including Fine Rugs and Carpet, London, 01 May 2019, 10:30 AM