A large carved wooden panel, North Persia, circa 15th century

the main field with high-relief interlocking triangles and polygons forming larger hexagons, each piece carved individually with a palmette, with frieze borders of stylised leaves and palmettes, the upper frieze with a continuous inscription band in naskh against a ground of scrolling foliage

inscription

Qur’an, surah Al ‘Umran (III), parts of 18 and surah al-Saff (LXI), parts of 13