A Timurid moulded pottery squinch tile (muqarna)
Persia, second half of the 14th Centuryof rectangular and concave form with pointed arched top, decorated in turquoise, cobalt-blue and white glaze, deeply carved with scrolling vegetal interlace linked by central palmettes and split palmettes
29.7 cm. high注脚The present lot is related to the tiles which line the walls of the funerary chamber in 'The Mausoleum of an Anomymous Woman' in Samarkand dating to 1360 (see Jean Soustiel and Yves Porter, Tombs of Paradise, Saint-Remy-en-L'Eau 2003, p. 87).