Wooden painted Arch
A pair of polychrome wood Spandrels
North Africa, 18th Century
each of triangular form with finely cusped concave arching hypotenuse, polychrome decorated with styalized flowers under an open lattice pattern
101.5 x 165 x 11 cm.
Estimate:
£3,000 - 4,000
€3,500 - 4,700
US$ 4,500 - 6,000

Footnotes

  • A pair of Moroccan doors with very similar painted inlacing flower patterns is in the Museum Vor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam (inv. no. 68168), illustrated in M. Piotrovsky and J. Vrieze eds., Heavenly art Earthly beauty, exhibtion catalogue, Die Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, 16 December 1999-24 April 2000, p. 155, no. 108.

Category: Islamic and Oriental Art / Islamic and Indian Art


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