1/🧵 This chap is evidently from the dervish frieze in our project on 17th century Iranian tiles. But the edges of the fragment were ground down and any one of them could be the edge of the original tile!

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Group including ROM monkey tile: https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/462660/tile-of-monkeys-from-spandrel-frieze?ctx=d874f91d-2741-4d0f-9496-babca151cdae&idx=1

group including ROM dervish tile: https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/419227/tile?ctx=810d6cd5-055b-48fb-bd52-636ac4abe01f&idx=59

monkey feet and dervish body tile

monkeys and dervish

At one stage in the ROM project on 17th century Iranian tiles we had a frieze with monkeys & another with dervish, but then we found a tile that joined the two groups together!

(see my other #TileTuesday posts on the project)

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See https://archive.agakhanmuseum.org/collection/artifact/tile-panel-akm590

These beautiful 17th century Iranian iris tiles are in the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, but my research with Lisa Golombek eventually reconstructed an entire frieze filled with peacocks.

(see my other #TileTuesday posts on the project)

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Fragments of tiles from a sales catalogue

Tile with monkeys in Royal Ontario Museum https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/462660/tile-of-monkeys-from-spandrel-frieze

1/🧵 For Tile Tuesday some fragments I had been working on for a project on 17th century tiles from Safavid Isfahan, Iran. 1st pic is from a sales catalogue; 2nd is in the Royal Ontario Museum (@romtoronto.bsky.social).

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