A CARVED WOODEN CORNER POST, from a cenotaph, with two adjoining sides carved with an elaborate arabesque interlace running into similar openwork on the corner, a short excerpt from a very elegant naskh inscription above, a similar smaller panel below, the uncarved sides with mortises for jointing other sections, also with brief carved 'sketches' for the work on the finished sides, traces of original poychrome, Timurid Iran, 15th century (very slight damage on leading edge)

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A CARVED WOODEN CORNER POST, from a cenotaph, with two adjoining sides carved with an elaborate arabesque interlace running into similar openwork on the corner, a short excerpt from a very elegant naskh inscription above, a similar smaller panel below, the uncarved sides with mortises for jointing other sections, also with brief carved 'sketches' for the work on the finished sides, traces of original poychrome, Timurid Iran, 15th century (very slight damage on leading edge)
52¼in. (134cm.) high

Lot Essay

Other sections from the same cenotaph have been offered in these rooms, 23rd April 1991, lots 77-80 and 28th April 1992, lots 166 and 167. For a discussion of the style and group of cenotaphs from Mezanderan, see footnote to the first of these lots.

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