Enrica Medugno
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A collection of Qajar tile Panels
Lot 50R,TP
A Qajar underglaze-painted pottery tile panel depicting men in prayer Persia, 19th Century
Amended
14 November 2023, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £7,680 inc. premium
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A Qajar underglaze-painted pottery tile panel depicting men in prayer
Persia, 19th Century
Persia, 19th Century
of rectangular form with a curved top, comprising twenty-four tiles decorated in polychrome on a white ground, the lower rectangular panel with a hanging mosque lamp and three groups of men in three different stages of prayer with prayer rugs, enclosed within a lobed niche with scrolling foliate design and quatrefoil motifs containing birds to the spandrels, with concentric borders of dots, floral vines, and inscriptions; the upper semi-circular panel with the façade of a domed mosque, bordered with dots, floral vines, and inscriptions; in a mashribiyya wood frame with a painted wood spandrel
each tile 15.5 x 15.5 cm.; the frame 142 x 72 cm.
each tile 15.5 x 15.5 cm.; the frame 142 x 72 cm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Formerly in situ in the summer residence of Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879-1953), Isle of Wight, UK. Believed to have been acquired in Persia by an earlier resident in the early 20th century.
Private UK collection.
Inscriptions: a fanciful inscription stating that the panel was made during the reign of Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan in the year AH 786 (AD 1384-5).
For an extremely similar tile panel in a matching frame depicting a different scene, presumably from the same provenance or produced at the same time, see Christie's, Art of the Islamic Worlds, 10 October 2006, lot 155.
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