Balkh (Northern Afghanistan). Ziarat-i-Khwaja Abu Nasr Pasr (shrine), third quarter, 15th century. Detail of portal, faience inlay. Photographer: Byron, Robert
Balkh (Northern Afghanistan). Ziarat-i-Khwaja Abu Nasr Pasr (shrine), third quarter, 15th century. Detail of portal, faience inlay Photographer: Byron, Robert
Balkh (Northern Afghanistan). Ziarat-i-Khwaja Abu Nasr Pasr (shrine), third quarter, 15th century. Detail of corkscrew columns of portal (faience inlay) and of screen joining columns to minaret bases (small faience bricks). Photographer: Byron, Robert
Balkh (Northern Afghanistan). Ziarat-i-Khwaja Abu Nasr Pasr (shrine), third quarter, 15th century. Base of corkscrew columns of portal, faience inlay. Photographer: Byron, Robert
Balkh (Northern Afghanistan). Ziarat-i-Khwaja Abu Nasr Pasr (shrine), third quarter, 15th century. Base of portal front, faience inlay. Photographer: Byron, Robert
Balkh (Northern Afghanistan). Ziarat-i-Khwaja Abu Nasr Pasr (shrine), third quarter, 15th century. Border of formalised irises at angle of portal arch, faience inlay. Photographer: Byron, Robert
Balkh (Northern Afghanistan). Ziarat-i-Khwaja Abu Nasr Pasr (shrine), third quarter, 15th century. Drum and dome, faience inlay. Photographer: Byron, Robert
Balkh (Northern Afghanistan). Ziarat-i-Khwaja Abu Nasr Pasr (shrine), third quarter, 15th century. Drum and dome and minaret base, faience inlay. Photographer: Byron, Robert
Balkh (Northern Afghanistan). Ziarat-i-Khwaja Abu Nasr Pasr (shrine), third quarter, 15th century. Detail of drum, faience inlay. Photographer: Byron, Robert
Balkh (Northern Afghanistan). Ziarat-i-Khwaja Abu Nasr Pasr (shrine), third quarter, 15th century. Detail of dome, ribs and stalactite brackets, small bricks glazed in turquoise. Photographer: Byron, Robert