Panel, 10th century
Found at Nishapur, Iran
Stucco, applied and carved (probably originally polychromed)
Technical Glossary
Found at Nishapur, Iran
Stucco, applied and carved (probably originally polychromed)
H. 28 1/2 in. (71.3 cm), W. 29 3/8 in. (74.5 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1940 (40.170.441)
Remarkable though they seem, the projecting budlike forms on this object have parallels in ninth-century Samarra’ stuccoes and tenth-century stucco decoration in the Syrian monastery in Wadi an-Natrun, Egypt. The grape leaves in the archlike compartments are of classical derivation by way of the Samarra’ school of stucco carving. This panel probably formed a cornicelike termination to the upper part of a wall.
