CENTRAL ASIA, SECOND HALF 14TH CENTURY

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AN ILKHANID CARVED AND GLAZED POTTERY TILE
Central Asia, second half 14th century
The rectangular tile deeply carved with a geometrical interlace design covered with a turquoise glaze between plain white bands, wide outer band covered with cobalt-blue glaze
11¼in. (28.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

Deeply carved tiles with geometric lattices are a feature of Central Asian architecture of the fourteenth century. The most notable of such buildings employing tiles is the tomb of Buyan Quli Khan near Bokhara dating from 1358-59 (Lentz, Thomas W. and Lowry, Glenn D.: Timur and the Pirncely Vision, Los Angeles, 1989, pp.40-41). When discussing a geometric tile closely related to the present example, Oliver Watson notes that the practice of using deeply carved geometric interlace tiles ceased around the end of the century, being replaced by tile mosaic and cuerda seca techniques ('Art from the World of Islam, 8th-18th century', Louisiana Revy vol.27, no.3, March 1987, no.179, p.103).

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