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Description : of reddish earthenware fired with a purplish-black glaze which has been pecked away to reveal a calligraphic design in intaglio, against a ground of fine spiralling stems bearing pointed leaves each approximately 14 cm. 5 1/2 in. by 12.5 cm. 5 in., 2.5 cm. lin thick (22) INSCRIPTIONS The repetition of an Arabic phrase. The single rather than double diacritical marks show that the calligraphy is of Maghribi origin. This remarkable series of Moroccan tiles (zilij) consists of a calligraphic frieze (hizam), of the type usually designed as an upper border for abstract panels of coloured mosaic tile. Unlike the eastern Islamic world, an underglaze tradition of tile-making never developed in medieval Morocco, and this ingenious solution was used to fabricate designs far finer than those obtainable in cut tile mosaic. They have a delicacy of design, with fine lines for the spiral stems. Similar calligraphic friezes of the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries can be seen in the Dar al-Batha' Museum, the Madrasah al-Bu'naniyah, Madrasah Bin Yusuf and Madrasah al-`Attarin, all in Fez, the Jami` Sidi Bin Nasr, in Tetuan, the Madrasah Abul Hasan al-Marini, in Sale, the Dar al-Glawi, in Marrakesh, and the Dar al-Qasbah Museum in Tangiers. For illustrations of these tiles, see Hedgecoe and Damluji, pp.36-7, 139, 145, 148, 153, 155, 158, 162, 186, 209, 232, 242, 260-1. A similar single tile from Sale is in the Louvre, see Paris 1977, p.77, no.84 and see Blunt, p.77 for a frieze in situ at the Mausoleum of the sultans of the Sa'adian dynasty, Marrakesh.
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