A TIMURID POLYCHROME CUERDA SECA FRIEZE
CENTRAL ASIA, EARLY 15TH CENTURY
£2,520
Auction: 11 December 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
composed of four tiles, of which two are broken, decorated with palmettes heightened with gold on a cobalt-blue and turquoise ground, mounted and framed
Dimensions
each tile: 37.2cm x 13.5cm
Provenance
Scottish Private Collection.
Footnote
The tiles' stylistic features are very similar to those that decorate the facade of the tomb of Shirin Bika Agha (d.1385/6) at Shah-i Zinda in Samarkand dated to circa 1400 (see T. Lentz and G. Lowry, Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the 15th Century, Smithsonian Institute, 1989, p. 213).
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Arts from the Land of Timur. An Exhibition from a Scottish Private Collection, Edinburgh, 2012, no. 452, p. 216.