A TIMURID CARVED WOODEN BEAM
PROBABLY MAZANDERAN, NORTH IRAN, 15TH CENTURY
Of rectangular form, the face carved with a long band of elegant thuluth inscription within a band of meandering arabesques entwined with a flowering tendril, further panels of inscription at each end, traces of pigment on the surface, a groove running along the upper edge, slightly deficient along lower edge, mounted
39in. (99cm.) long
A TIMURID CARVED WOODEN BEAM
PROBABLY MAZANDERAN, NORTH IRAN, 15TH CENTURY
Of rectangular form, the face carved with a long band of elegant thuluth inscription within a band of meandering arabesques entwined with a flowering tendril, further panels of inscription at each end, traces of pigment on the surface, a groove running along the upper edge, slightly deficient along lower edge, mounted
39in. (99cm.) long