AN EXTRAORDINARY ISLAMIC RARE AND DEEPLY CARVED STONE PANEL
PERIOD :
late 14th/early 15th century
ORIGIN:
Central Asia
DIMENSIONS:
48 x 31.7 x 10.4
DESCRIPTION:
Of arched shape, with deeply carved floral and foliate designs embellished with exquisite green turquoise,lavender-blue and aubergine glazes, the exquisite green turquoise-glazed centre with a tri-lobed arch containing scrolling intertwined arabesques, split palmettes and lotus blossoms, the blue-glazed spandrels carved en suite, between rounded borders.
FOOTNOTES:
Literature:
Frédérique Beaupertius-Bressand, L’or Bleu de Samarkand: The Blue Gold of Samarkand, 1997. Gérard Degeorge and Yves Porter, The Art of the Islamic Tile, 2002.
Thomas W. Lentz and Glenn D. Lowry, Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century, 1989.
Roland and Sabrina Michaud and Michael Barry, Colour and Symbolism in Islamic Architecture: Eight Centuries of the Tile-Maker’s Art, 1996.
Venetia Porter, Islamic Tiles, 1997.
CONDITION REPORT:
In overall relatively good condition with some chips to extremities, some encrustation along pits,as viewed.
PROVENANCE:
European Private Collections,Since the 1960s.
