Lot 312
A Qajar pottery tile Panel depicting a battle scene Persia, 19th Century
10 April 2008, 14:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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Find your local specialistA Qajar pottery tile Panel depicting a battle scene
Persia, 19th Century
Persia, 19th Century
comprising twelve square tiles, underglaze, painted in polychrome depicting two men on horseback fighting each other within an arched frame, two lower outer corners depicting lion heads, in the two upper corners above the arch are depicted the two princes looking down from heaven with their attendants, three inscription-filled cartouches along the upper frame
74 x 55.5 cm.
74 x 55.5 cm.
Footnotes
The inscriptions consist of a couplet, probably from Firdausi's Shahnama, which describes a combat: 'He struck his head with his sword with rancour, and with the power of his arms cut him in two'; the middle cartouche reads: 'At the time of Sultan Mahmoud Ghaznavi'.