Lot 42
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A SAFAVID CARVED WOODEN POLYCHROME INSCRIPTION PANEL
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A SAFAVID CARVED WOODEN POLYCHROME INSCRIPTION PANEL

IRAN, DATED AH 992/1584-5 AD

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A SAFAVID CARVED WOODEN POLYCHROME INSCRIPTION PANEL
IRAN, DATED AH 992/1584-5 AD
Probably originally from a cenotaph, of rectangular form, with two vertical registers of carved thuluth inscriptions, painted in red on a black ground, an arched panel to one end with painted black thuluth inscription, the spandrels with polychrome carved floral arabesque on red ground
22½ x 8¼in. (57 x 21cm.)
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Lot Essay

The inscription, which is in Persian, laments the death of a khwaja. The wording indicates that it is either taken from a sufi poet or that it was made for a sufi tomb. The upper arched inscription panel appears to have been re-inscribed shortly after it was first made, which makes interpretation difficult. In two places the word sahib is clearly legible, but the names are not possible fully to decipher. The date is written faintly to one side of this upper inscription.

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