ID 727365
Lot 37 | A FATIMID CARVED INTERLACE WOODEN PANEL
Estimate value
£ 200 000 – 300 000
EGYPT, CIRCA 1150
Probably originally from a minbar or screen, arranged with a lattice centred on a diagonal grouping of six-pointed stars, each of the panels carved with a variety of scrolling arabesques and palmette terminals, occasionally with fruit or flowerheads, some of the long panels with single benedictory words in kufic overlaying the interlace designs, 'shamila, da'im, kamila wa ni'ma (complete, eternal, perfect and God's favour) divided by interlaced wooden strips with central narrow bone ridge, (slight rubbing and restoration), mounted in two panels of uneven size within a Syrian wood frame inset with bone and wooden hexagons and lozenges divided by wooden stringing, the cross-bar also with the date 1161 (1748-9 AD) when the frame was created
Provenance
Anon. sale in these Rooms, 26 April 1994
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| Medium: | Wood |
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| Art style: | Fatimid dynasty (909-1171) |
| Place of origin: | Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Wood |
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| Art style: | Fatimid dynasty (909-1171) |
| Place of origin: | Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
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