A FATIMID CARVED INTERLACE WOODEN PANEL

Lot 37
31.03.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 200 000
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Lot 37 | A FATIMID CARVED INTERLACE WOODEN PANEL
Valeur estimée
£ 200 000 – 300 000
A FATIMID CARVED INTERLACE WOODEN PANEL

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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