One of five wall tiles of underglaze painted earthenware, oblong, and painted with a white inscription in reserve against a dark background with flower scrolls in a cartouche: ASIA, West Asia, Turkey, 17th-18th century

One of five wall tiles of underglaze painted earthenware, oblong, and painted with a white inscription in reserve against a dark background with flower scrolls in a cartouche: ASIA, West Asia, Turkey, 17th-18th century

One of five wall tiles of underglaze painted earthenware, fragment, oblong, and painted with a white inscription in reserve against a dark background with flower scrolls: ASIA, West Asia, Turkey, 17th-18th century

One of five wall tiles of underglaze painted earthenware, fragment, oblong, and painted with a white inscription in reserve against a dark background with flower scrolls in a cartouche with knot and clouds: ASIA, West Asia, Turkey, 17th-18th century

Border wall tile of siliceous-glazed earthenware painted with a scrolling design in white touched with manganese and blue on a turquoise ground: Syria, Damascus, 16th century

Wall tile of glazed earthenware, painted with blue, green and drab floriated ornament and a white ground centre: Middle East, Iran, 16th or 17th century AD

Wall tile of glazed earthenware with a representation in low relief of Bahram Gur killing an antelope in the presence of his queen, surrounded by a polychrome framed floral border: Middle East, Iran, 19th century

Wall tile, panel of two pieces with moulded design of two pointed niche forms with a Qur'anic inscription and palmette branches and a pendant knot in the spandrels against a yellow lustre ground of foliage, fritware, painted under the glaze in cobalt blue and turquoise: Middle East, Iran, Natanz, 13th - 14th century

Wall tile or brick, eight-pointed star-shaped, reflet, with white diaper pattern on a bronze ground in centre, and a blue and white inscribed border: Middle East, Iran

Eight-pointed star tile, the central field decorated in reserve with lustred arabesque design, around the border an inscription band in large cursive script, painted in lustre and cobalt blue on an opaque white glaze: Middle East, Iran, 14th century

Cruciform earthenware wall tile with lustred glaze, floral ornamentation and Koranic border inscription in brown on a white ground: Middle East, Iran, found in the ruins of Veramin, probably from Rhages, 12th or 13th century

Star-shaped earthenware wall tile with lustred glaze, floral ornamentation and Qur'anic border inscription in brown on a white ground: West Asia, Iran, Varamin, c. 1261 - 1262

Wall tile of glazed earthenware with bas-relief polychrome design of an equestrian figure with hawk on right hand, floral ornament, and buildings in background, with raised border at top: Middle East, Iran, 19th century

Wall tile of glazed earthenware with bas-relief polychrome design of an equestrian figure with hawk on right hand, floral ornament, and buildings in background, with raised border at top: Middle East, Iran, 19th century

Wall tile, underglaze polychrome painted with a couple on horseback in a landscape with flowers and buildings: West Asia, Iran, probably Isfahan, Qajar, 1870 - 1880

Wall tile of glazed earthenware with a bordered bas-relief polychrome design of a dinner party with musicians and attendants: Middle East, Iran, 19th century