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(Mongol Iran – Il-Khanid & Timurid periods:)

(c[irca] 1295-[c[irca]1500[ce]])*

‘In the Timurid period the use of colour in architecture reached a high point. Every architectural unit was divided, on both the exterior and the interior, into panels of brilliantly coloured tiles** that sometimes were mixed with stucco or terra-cotta architectural decorations.’

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*{2048J~1280|G~1536}

**{cf 13th C[entury] Europe – heavily coloured stained glass – eg Chartres, ref VIII [[Redbook8:325-326][19910314:1020g][Gothic Art (2)(continued (13)):] Early Gothic Architecture [14th March 1991],] 326}

***[– ibid (Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:) 94]

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