AFGHANISTAN, 11TH/12TH CENTURY

A similar group of tiles was offered in these Rooms, 10 October 2000, lot 243. The present group, although smaller in number, has the unusual pictorial example of a man of horseback at the bottom of the illustration. Futher examples are in the Metropolitan museum of Art (Carboni, Stefano and Masuya, Tomoko: Persian Tiles, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1993, no.1, p.6) and in the British Museum (Porter, Venetia: Islamic Tiles, London, 1995, pl.53, p.56). These latter examples were excavated from the palace of Mas'ud III at Ghazni which was occupied until the Mongol invasion in 1221.