The design itself has a fanciful five-petaled rosette on a star-shaped background. This marble panel seems to have come from the Ulugh Beg Madrasa on the Registan in Samarkand. All the examples mentioned above (except the fragments from the Buyan Quli Khan Mausoleum) belong to the era of Amir Temur and the Temurids, who in the last quarter of 14th and 15th centuries ruled over the territory of modern-day Uzbekistan and its neighboring countries. The rule of Temur and his successors over Central Asia, despite involving numerous military campaigns, is one of history’s outstanding periods of cultural and artistic efflorescence.
Along with local masters, Temur had builders, artists and craftsmen transported from areas he had conquered to his new capital Samarkand, erecting a series of extremely beautiful buildings whose size and decorations were striking. During his lifetime richly adorned buildings came into being in other cities of the empire as well, such as Shahrisabz and Bukhara. They continue to this day to delight and astound Uzbekistan’s citizens as well as the country’s many visitors.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "Collections of the Federal Republic of Germany" (volume XI) in the series "Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections".
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