EGYPT, 9TH CENTURY

Details

A TUNLUNID CARVED CYPRESS PANEL
Egypt, 9th century
Of rectangular form, the central panel with a band of meandering tendrils linking palmettes, flowerheads and split palmettes, plain surround, three indentations above, upper sections weathered, slight old worm
7 x 31½in. (17.8 x 80cm.)

Provenance

Nasli M. Heeramaneck, donated by Joan Palevsky

Literature

Pal, Pratapaditya (ed.): Islamic Art, the Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, Los Angeles, 1973, no.348, p.176 (not illustrated).

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Lot Essay

A carved wood bean with very similar design but slightly more elaborated and with an upper band of kufic inscription is in the Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo (The Arts of Islam, exhibition catalogue, London, 1976, no.435, p.282).

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