SYRIA, 6TH-8TH CENTURY

细节

AN UMAYYAD ENGRAVED IVORY PANEL
Syria, 6th-8th Century
The rectangular panel carved on the face with a large figure wearing long robe and blowing two pipes, confronted by a smaller figure holding a raised lute, the costumes indicated with parallel lines, the hems with drilled beading, damages to extremities
3½ x 1¾in. (8.8 x 4.3cm.)

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拍品专文

Musicians playing two pipes are depicted in antiquity, for example a bronze figure from Syria which can be dated to the third century in the Damascus Museum (Syrie, Mémoire et Civilisation, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1993, no.275, pp.324-5). The detailing of the present figure is however very different and more stylised than the Roman period figure. The parallel lines used in the folds and the dots or circles running along the edges of the drapery are however both close to those seen on a stucco figure from Qasr Hayr al-Gharbi (Syrie, Mémoise et Civilisation, no.307, p.,416). The headdress can also be found on an ivory panel of a drummer seated frontally, executed in a more realistic manner, in the Louvre Museum (L'Islamic dans les collections nationales, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1977, no.305, p.152). That example is attributed to Iraq from the 9th-13th centuries.