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An octagonal Chini-Khane room in this city’s shrine to Sheikh Safi displays gifts to Abbas I. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this city. A massive artwork created in this city, which hung in Sheikh Safi’s shrine until 1843, features two lamps hanging from either side of a central medallion, and a cartouche dating it to Shah Tahmasp’s reign.
ANSWER: Ardabil
[10e] The Chini-Khane were arrays of wall niches created by Safavid and Mughal nobility to house objects of this material from China. The Míng dynasty was famed for blue-and-white vases of this ceramic material.
ANSWER: porcelain [prompt on pottery]
[10m] Chinese bowls feature in the Met’s Reciting Poetry in a Garden, a Safavid courtyard scene painted on a panel of these objects. Artisans painted on glaze to create the seven-colored haft rang type of these objects that decorate the interiors of mosques.
ANSWER: tiles
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