rectangular, finely carved in relief with a small flower-filled mihrab below the central field with a design of bold flower-bearing arabesque interlace, the outer border with a band of floral arabesque vine, the sides with an entwined floral arabesque vine, mounted
87 x 25cm.

Footnotes

This cenotaph panel is typical of a style developed in Herat under the Timurid dynasty in the second half of the 15th Century. This same group of schist panels includes a cenotaph in the Isabella Gardner Museum, Boston (Lentz, Thomas W. and Glenn D. Lowry, Timur and the Princely Vision, Los Angeles, 1989, p. 201, fig. 70; another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, dated AH 942/ AD 1536 (acc. no. 973-1901); a further example bearing the name of Abu'l Ghazi Sultan Sa'id and dated AH 937-940/ AD 1530-33 is split between the Louvre Museum and the Museum of Art and History of Uzbekistan (Bittar, Therese, Pierres et stucs epigraphies, Paris, 2003, pp. 169-71, no. 65); and another cenotaph dated AH 859/ AD 1455 was sold at Christie's (Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 7th October 2008, lot 150).

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A Timurid grey schist Panel from a Cenotaph probably Herat, second half of the 15th Century second half of the 15th Century

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