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Crowned Head

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The Khalili Collections

Crowned Head

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In twelfth-century Iran, following the decline of the Great Seljuks, paintings in audience halls were replaced by high-relief stucco sculpture, often enhanced with polychrome decoration in red, blue and gold. This head, which conforms to the contemporary Turkic ideal of beauty, wears an Iranian diadem and may be from a more elaborately composed enthronement scene, with the ruler at the centre, flanked by attendants bearing the emblems of their office in the royal household.

The Khalili Collections

London

Title

Crowned Head

Date

12th C

Medium

stucco, moulded & carved; with traces of paint

Accession number

227

Work type

Bust

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