Lot 338
An important Timurid cuerda seca pottery Tile Panel Central Asia, early 15th Century
29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£20,000 - £30,000
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Central Asia, early 15th Century
Central Asia, early 15th Century
decorated in blue, white, green, ochre, with a design of reciprocal trefoils containing floral arabesques, downward pointed palmettes also with floral arabesques in between, framed
202 x 35 cm.
202 x 35 cm.
Footnotes
Mosaic tiles, the method whereby plain glazed tiles usually in turquoise, blue, green, white, black and mustard are cut to form a larger scale pattern, was first used in Central Asia in the 14th Century, and continued to be used in Persia until the Safavid period. The designs of the earliest examples are similar to those of tiles in the cuerda seca, or dry cord technique (Venetia Porter, Islamic Tiles, London, 1995, pp. 65-8).
A similar frieze can be seen around the dome of the Tuman Aqa Mausoleum of 1405 in Samarkand (Frederique Beaupertris-Bressand, L'Or Blue de Samarkand, Paris, 1997).