Lot 400
400
A TIMURID CUERDA SECA FRAGMENTARY POLYGONAL TILE of unusual shape comprising a central lozenge with elongated arms extending from two points, the blue ground with a central rosette issuing turquoise tendrils overlaid by white cusped arabesques terminating in a trefoil panel, highlighted with touches of gold leaf, 15th century (damaged, partly restored)

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A TIMURID CUERDA SECA FRAGMENTARY POLYGONAL TILE of unusual shape comprising a central lozenge with elongated arms extending from two points, the blue ground with a central rosette issuing turquoise tendrils overlaid by white cusped arabesques terminating in a trefoil panel, highlighted with touches of gold leaf, 15th century (damaged, partly restored)
15in. (38cm.) across
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The carpet session will commence on
THURSDAY 28 APRIL
AT 2.30 P.M.

Lot Essay

Tiles of this colouring, decoration and shape can be seen on the minaret of the madrasa of Sultan Huseyn Mirza, Herat, built circa 1492-93 (Lentz, T.W. and Lowry, G.D.: Timur and the Princely Vision - Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C. 1989, fig.92, p.255).

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