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A LATE TIMURID TILE MOSAIC PANEL
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A LATE TIMURID TILE MOSAIC PANEL

FROM THE SHRINE OF ZAYN AL-MULK, ISFAHAN, CENTRAL IRAN, AH 885/1480-81 AD

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A LATE TIMURID TILE MOSAIC PANEL
FROM THE SHRINE OF ZAYN AL-MULK, ISFAHAN, CENTRAL IRAN, AH 885/1480-81 AD
Of rectangular form, the blue ground with a design of interlaced ivory chequered arabesques, ochre similar arabesques with split palmette terminals, and turquoise meandering flowering and rosette vine below a cusped shouldered light manganese arch containing light and dark blue bold arabesques overlaying ochre and green scrolling smaller-scale similar motifs, plain stripe border, possible restorations, mounted
63¾ x 31 7/8in. (162 x 81cm.)
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The shrine of Zayn al-Mulk was built by Ja'far ibn 'Imad ibn 'Ali al-Adhami al-Gulbari al-Hasani in 1480-1AD (Golombek, Lisa and Wilbur, Donald: The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan, Princeton, 1988, vol.I, pp.386-387). Built during the period of Aqquyunlu control of the city, it retains a Timurid aesthetic in its design and colouring. Another virtually identical tile mosaic panel is in the Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., (Lentz, Thomas W., and Glenn D. Lowry: Timur and the Princely Vision, Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century, Los Angeles, 1989, pp.257 and 358). They were purchased by Sackler and Heidi Vollmoeller from successive lots in the sale of property from Hagop Kevorkian. Further smaller panels also survive in Western Collections, worked with less imposing designs but in the same colour scheme.