拍品 101
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A GEOMETRIC STUCCO TILE
A GEOMETRIC STUCCO TILE

SAMANID CENTRAL ASIA OR IRAN, 10TH CENTURY

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A GEOMETRIC STUCCO TILE
SAMANID CENTRAL ASIA OR IRAN, 10TH CENTURY
Of square form, the surface deeply carved with central band of geometric strapwork, the interstices filled with rosettes or pyrimidal facets, a band of conical protrusions above and the remains of a quatrefoil rosette with palmette terminals below, losses
12½ x 11 1/8in. (32.1 x 28.5cm.)

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Romain Pingannaud
Romain Pingannaud
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拍品專文

The line of pierced roundels, the background filled with diamond shaped motifs and the four-petalled rosettes are elements which can all be closely paralleled with the architectural decoration of the Samanid mausoleum of Isma'il in Bukhara, erected before 943 AD (Arthur U. Pope, A Survey of Persian Art, London, 1938, p.264, ill.A-C). Although the decoration of the mausoleum is on a larger scale, the finesse with which the tile fragment has been carved indicates that it was intended to decorate an important monument.