A MOULDED AND STAMPED TERRACOTTA PANEL

PROBABLY GHURID AFGHANISTAN, 12TH CENTURY

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A MOULDED AND STAMPED TERRACOTTA PANEL
PROBABLY GHURID AFGHANISTAN, 12TH CENTURY
Of rectangular form moulded with a running deer, decorated with triangular textured indents to its upper haunches and stylised studded collar, on ground of scrolling arabesques vine, raised band above and below
4½ x 6 3/8 x 1¼in. (11.4 x 16.4 x 3.2cm.)

Provenance

London art market, circa 1984

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Lot Essay

A panel with a lion on a ground of scrolling vine in the Al-Sabah Collection (inv. LNS 1071 C), is very similar both in terms of design and in dimensions to our panel. The Al-Sabah collection panel is dated to the 12th century and attributed to Transoxiana. (Arte Della Civiltà Islamica. La Collezione al-Sabah, Kuwait, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2010, no.244, p.270). The punched triangular decoration both to the body of the deer on our panel and to the body of the lion in the Al-Sabah panel, suggest a possible connection to Ghurid Afghanistan. See for example lot 68 which has similar triangular punched decorative motifs embellishing a geometric design.

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