ID 1178330
Los 62 | A SECTION FROM AN ILLUSTRATED SHAHNAMA
Schätzwert
£ 5 000 – 7 000
ONE ILLUSTRATION SIGNED SALIM AND THE OTHER MUQIM, PROBABLY BUKHARA, UZBEKISTAN, CIRCA 1670
From a Shahnama of Firdawsi, Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, comprising two quires each of 6ff. and with one illustration in opaque pigments heightened with gold, the first illustration depicting Iskandar slaying the dragon and the second depicting the death of Sohrab, each signed, each folio with 19 to 27ll. black nasta'liq written horizontally and on the diagonal arranged in four columns with gold intercolumnar rules, illustrations within the text panel, set within gold, blue and black rules, headings in red nasta'liq, the plain margins with later pencil pagination and marginal annotations, catchwords
Painting 5 ½ x 3 7⁄8in. (14 x 9.8cm.); text panel 7 1⁄8 x 4 1⁄8in. (18.2 x 10.5cm.); folio 9 7⁄8 x 6 ¼in. (25.2 x 16.3cm.)
Provenance
Octave Homberg, Paris, by 1931
Literature
Collection Octave Homberg, June 1931, no.93, p.49
| Kunst Stil: | Safawiden (1506-1722) |
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| Herkunftsort: | Asien, Usbekistan |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Bücher und Handschriften |
| Kunst Stil: | Safawiden (1506-1722) |
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| Herkunftsort: | Asien, Usbekistan |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Bücher und Handschriften |
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