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Lot 35

A Timurid carved calligraphic pottery tile
Central Asia, probably Samarkand, second half of the 14th Century

22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £28,160 inc. premium

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A Timurid carved calligraphic pottery tile
Central Asia, probably Samarkand, second half of the 14th Century

of rectangular form, decorated in turquoise and white and carved in deep relief with a band of inscription on a ground of split-palmette interlace, all within horizontal borders, framed
the tile 46.9 x 18.6 cm. max.

Footnotes

Provenance
Private UK collection, acquired by the previous owner's grandfather on his travels in the early 1900s.

For similar tiles on the facade of the Mausoleum of Khwaje Ahmad (c. 1350) in Samarkand see Jean Soustiel and Yves Porter, Tombs of Paradise, Saint-Remy-en-L'Eau 2003, p. 87 and p. 93.

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