ID 727134 
Los 52  | RUSTAM LASSOES THE KING OF SHAM
Schätzwert
£ 80 000 – 120 000 
BY SIYAVUSH, QAZVIN, SAFAVID IRAN, 1576 OR 1577
An illustrated folio from the Shahnama of Firdawsi, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, four columns of black nasta'liq above and below, ascribed to Siyavush on lower right corner, within gold and polychrome rules, reverse with 22ll. of nasta'liq, flanked by a column of 20ll. of nasta'liq written on the diagonal, a repaired tear to lower right, overall good condition
Painting 10 x 7 7⁄8in. (26.7 x 20cm.); text panel 15 3⁄8 x 9 1⁄4in. (39.2 x 23.4cm.); folio 18 1⁄8 x 12 3⁄8in. (45.9 x 31.3cm.)
Literature
B. W. Robinson, Persian Miniature Paintings from British Collections, London, 1951, no.62, p.21 (as Shiraz work, manually amended in the author’s personal copy to read Qazvin)
Roman Ghirschman, Kunstschatze aus Iran: Kunstschatze aus Iran von der prähistorischen bis zur islamischen Zeit, Zurich, 1962, no.1004
B. W. Robinson, “Persian Painting” in The Concise Encyclopaedia of Antiques, V, ed. L. G. G. Ramsay, London, 1961, 77 and pl.55D
B. W. Robinson, “Persian Painting” in The Complete Encyclopaedia of Antiques, ed. L. G. G. Ramsay, London, 1962, 817 and pl.296C
B. W. Robinson, Persian Drawings, New York, 1965, p.135, pl. 43 (colour).
B. W. Robinson, Persian Miniature Paintings, London, 1965, p. 16, pl. 28.
B. W. Robinson, Persian Painting from collections in the British Isles, London, 1967, no. 56(c).
Anthony Welch, Artists for the Shah, Yale, 1976, pp.22, 25 and fig.1
B. W. Robinson, "Isma'il II's Copy of the Shahnama", Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, vol. 14, 1976, p. 4, no. 36.
Robert Hillenbrand, Imperial Images in Persian Painting, exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh, 1977, p. 68, no. 155.
B.W. Robinson, Studies in Persian Art, Vol. II, London, 1993, p.290
Exhibited
Exposition d’art persan, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, 1912, (parent manuscript)
Kunstschatze aus Iran, Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1962
Persian Painting from collections in the British Isles, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1967
Imperial Images in Persian Painting, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, August-September, 1977
| Kunst Stil: | Safawiden (1506-1722) | 
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| Herkunftsort: | Iran, Asien | 
| Kunst Stil: | Safawiden (1506-1722) | 
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| Herkunftsort: | Iran, Asien | 
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