Hexagone de revêtement Lot n° 15

Central Asia, Samarkand, Timurid art, 15th century Black line decoration and colored glazes, enhanced with gold, decorated with white palmettes forming a finial around a four-lobed rosette. Turquoise border. 16.5 x 14.5 cm Sotheby's, Islamic Art, London 1992, p. 67. Franco and Franca Bernasconi Collection, Lugano, inv. no. B 9256. We find these elements of coating on the mausoleum of the Timurid dynasty in Samarkand, the Guri Amir, published in: Arthur Pope, A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford University Press, London, vol. IV, p 421.