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A Timurid moulded pottery mihrab tile fragment Central Asia, second half of the 14th Century
14 November 2023, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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A Timurid moulded pottery mihrab tile fragment
Central Asia, second half of the 14th Century
Central Asia, second half of the 14th Century
comprising the lower part of a large palmette, carved and decorated in cobalt-blue, turquoise and white with scrolling foliate interlace and split palmettes, framed with printed upper section from another similar tile mounted above
39.5 x 31.5 cm.
39.5 x 31.5 cm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Private UK collection formed in the 1950s and 60s.
Published
Arts from the Land of Timur, Sogdiana Books, 2012, no. 465, p. 222.
Similar mihrab-shaped arches can be seen at the Mausoleum of an Anonymous Woman in the Shah-e Zende necropolis complex in Samarkand, illustrated in Jean Soustiel and Yves Porter's book Tombs of Paradise: The Shah-e Zende in Samarkand and architectural ceramics of Central Asia, 2003 p, 87. Another example is found in the Sadberk Hanim Museum, Istanbul, as illustrated in Hülya Bilgi's book Reunited after centuries: Works of art restored to Turkey by the Sadberk Hanim Museum, 2005, pp. 28-29, cat. no. 4.