Matthew Thomas
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Lot 39W
A large Timurid moulded cuerda seca pottery Tile Samarkand, late 14th Century
21 April 2015, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£40,000 - £60,000
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A large Timurid moulded cuerda seca pottery Tile
Samarkand, late 14th Century
Samarkand, late 14th Century
of rectangular form, decorated in polychrome with a large trefoil arched motif surmounted by a finial of diamond form, a series of interlocking palmette and split-palmette motifs on a ground of floral interlace within, the spandrels with sprays of lotus flowers and other smaller flowering branches, framed
90.5cm x 59cm
90.5cm x 59cm
Footnotes
Published:
Arts from the Land of Timur, Exhibition Catalogue, Sogdiana Books, 2012, no. 436.
The trefoil design and floral decoration on this tile is very similar to that on a tile from the Ostad Ali Nasafi Mausoleum in the Shah-i Zinda necropolis at Samarkand as illustrated in Jean Soustiel and Yves Porter, Tombs of Paradise, Saint-Remy-en-L'Eau 2003, p. 112.