A Timurid carved wood Architectural Support
Central Asia, 14th/ 15th Century
Central Asia, 14th/ 15th Century
carved in relief with four registers, two with panels of palmettes, a band of trefoils and a band of mihrab-shaped panels alternately plain and with interlacing foliage, between bands of lappets and diagonal stripes
140 cm. high
140 cm. high
Estimate:
£4,000 - 6,000
€4,700 - 7,000
US$ 6,200 - 9,400
€4,700 - 7,000
US$ 6,200 - 9,400
Footnotes
- Very little woodwork from Central Asia has, as yet, been published. Comparison, however, be made with the doors to the main dome chamber of the shrine of Ahmad Yasavi in Turkestan, circa 1397 (Arthur Upham Pope, A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford, 1938-9, pl. 1467).
Category: Islamic and Oriental Art / Islamic and Indian Art
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