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 red naskh inscription, inner black painted border, upper applied moulding painted white, 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 red naskh inscription, inner black painted border, upper applied moulding painted white, Timurid Iran, 15th century (slight surface abrasion and chipping of paint)
38 x 5½in. (96.5 x 13.7cm.)

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The inscription can be translated: 'and blessings on my master. This tomb is that of the two Imams, the important ones, the Sayyids, the Martyrs, the Pure(?), the Eloquent. They two and....'

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