A MONUMENTAL SELJUK STUCCO PANEL

Лот 28
31.03.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 378 000
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Лот 28 | A MONUMENTAL SELJUK STUCCO PANEL
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£ 400 000 – 600 000
A MONUMENTAL SELJUK STUCCO PANEL

IRAN, 12TH CENTURY

Of rectangular form, the deeply carved decoration arranged with a main register comprising four cusped cartouches each including figural motifs, three equestrian, the cartouches linked through to bands of fleshy palmettes which issue from the corners and which are filled with and surrounded by small geometric motifs, a band on stylized knotted kufic above and a minor band of chasing animals below, repaired breaks, minor areas of loss, areas of probable restoration, wall-mounted in steel frame

3ft. 9in. x 5ft. 8in. (116 x 178cm.)







Provenance

Reported to have been discovered in the vicinity of Sava

With R. Stora, Paris, before 1929 (reported to have been seen by Georges Demotte before his death in 1923)

Boston Museum of Fine Arts early 1930s

With R. Stora Art Galleries, mid-late 1930s

With Edward R Lubin Gallery, New York

With Ayoub Rabenou, New York

David Solomon, New York

Thence by succession to the present owners





Literature

F.Sarre, “Stuckdekorationen und Lüstervasen der persischen Mongolzeit”, Pantheon V (1930), 172-8

A. K. Coomaraswamy, A Persian Stucco Frieze, and other fragments, Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) XXVIII (1030), 104-7 illustrated.

R. M. Rieftsahl, “Persian Islamic stucco Sculptures”, The Art Bulletin, XIII (1931), 439-63.

G.Wiet, “L’exposition d’art persan à Londres”, Syria XIII (June 1932), 71-2 and pl. XIX

Arthur Upham Pope, A Survey of Persian Art, Volumes II and V, London and New York, 1938, pp.1305-08, pl.518

Jay Gluck and Noël Siver (editors), Surveyors of Persian Art: A Documentary Biography of Arthur Upham Pope & Phyllis Ackerman, 1996

Laura Weinstein, ‘My Dear Holmes: Arthur Upham Pope and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’ in Yuka Kadoi (ed.), Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art, Brill, 2016, pp.308-325, fig.12.1.





Exhibited

First International Congress Exhibition Devoted to the Art of Persia Philadelphia 1926

Islamic Galleries, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1930

Exhibition of Persian Art, Burlington House, London, 1931

Exhibition of Persian Art, Leningrad, 1935

Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York 1940





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