Complete Description
En bois sculpté d’un décor d’arcatures lobées sous lesquelles est inscrit en miroir le mot al-yumn en style coufique sur fond de palmettes, la partie supérieure décorée d’une frise de fleurons à quatre feuillets, restes de pigments, manques et usures
Dim. : 273 x 41 cm
Collection M.D., années 1960
Puis par descendance
This lintel provides a characteristic illustration of architectural decorative friezes: a series of lobed arcades surmounting a Kufic inscription, here bearing the eulogy al-yumn (“felicity”).
Numerous examples are known from as early as the Almohad period, and this style was subsequently repeated with little variation during the Marinid, Saadian and Alaouite periods. See comparable examples preserved in museum collections, such as a mosque lintel from the late twelfth or early thirteenth century in the Musée du Quai Branly (inv. no. M 88.2.3), two Marinid friezes in the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha (QM.2023.6287.1.12) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 1985.241). A closely related example, attributed to the Marinid dynasty, was sold at Artcurial, Paris, on 15 November 2023, lot 108.
