A RARE SPANISH CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINTED WOODEN FRIEZE SECTION, deeply carved with split palmette and fruit around a central concentric ogival arched panel containing a similar fruit, flanked by two bolder cusped arches with scrolling terminals enclosing paired floral motifs flanking a central trefoil, plain white band below and above, remains of a further flowerhead band above, Nasrid Granada, 14th century (some pigments flaking, slight damages to carving) | Christie's

Lot 336

336

A RARE SPANISH CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINTED WOODEN FRIEZE SECTION, deeply carved with split palmette and fruit around a central concentric ogival arched panel containing a similar fruit, flanked by two bolder cusped arches with scrolling terminals enclosing paired floral motifs flanking a central trefoil, plain white band below and above, remains of a further flowerhead band above, Nasrid Granada, 14th century (some pigments flaking, slight damages to carving)

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A RARE SPANISH CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINTED WOODEN FRIEZE SECTION, deeply carved with split palmette and fruit around a central concentric ogival arched panel containing a similar fruit, flanked by two bolder cusped arches with scrolling terminals enclosing paired floral motifs flanking a central trefoil, plain white band below and above, remains of a further flowerhead band above, Nasrid Granada, 14th century (some pigments flaking, slight damages to carving)
10¾ x 30¼in. (27.2 x 76.7cm.)

Lot Essay

A similar larger panel with a lower kufic inscription, obviously from the same group of carvings, is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Brett, M. and Forman, W.: The Moors - Islam and the West, London 1980, p.81; Welch, S.C.: Arts d'Islam, Paris 1989, pp.56 and 57).

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