A CARVED WOODEN BEAM from the lower register of a cenotaph, the face carved and painted with scrolling yellow palmette vine with touches of black and green around an elegant naskh inscription, inner black painted border, applied upper moulding painted white, the centre with a mortise joint, Timurid Iran, 15th century (slight surface abrasion and chipping of paint)

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A CARVED WOODEN BEAM from the lower register of a cenotaph, the face carved and painted with scrolling yellow palmette vine with touches of black and green around an elegant naskh inscription, inner black painted border, applied upper moulding painted white, the centre with a mortise joint, Timurid Iran, 15th century (slight surface abrasion and chipping of paint)
84¼ x 5¼in. (215 x 13.2cm.)

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The inscription comemmorates those who are buried in the shrine who are apparently descendants of the Imam Musa al-Kazim. It then gives the names of the makers of the sarcophagus; Ustad Muhammad b. al-Husayn, the carpenter, known as Kanakard(?) of the province of Rudi, together with the calligrapher, Mahmud b. ...

See also footnote to lot 343

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