A CARVED WHITE LIMESTONE TOMBSTONE

Lot 972
24.09.2020 09:30UTC -05:00
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ID 395847
Lot 972 | A CARVED WHITE LIMESTONE TOMBSTONE
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
A CARVED WHITE LIMESTONE TOMBSTONE

IRAN, YAZD, DATED AH 423 (1031-32)

The main field carved with 11 lines of kufic on vegetal ground within a bolder border of similar kufic, rising in the centre to a cusped arched gable, the spandrels with scrolling vine around angled drop-shaped kufic panels

31 ¾ x 16 1/8 in. (81 x 41 cm.)

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