ID 1178482
Los 49 | THE SERPENT BEARER CONSTELLATION (AL-HAWWA)
Schätzwert
£ 6 000 – 8 000
SAFAVID IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, faded annotations in black and red ink, the painting breaking through gold and black inner rules and within gold and black outer rules, set within gold-sprinkled margins, the verso plain, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 9 ½ x 5 ¾in. (24 x 14.5cm.); folio 10 ½ x 6 ¾in. (26.8 x 17.2cm.)
Provenance
New York by 1971
Inscribed
At the top, surat-i havva’ u haya chunanchih … asman mi-namayad, ‘Image of the serpent carrier and the serpent as it appears [in] the sky’
Faintly written at the bottom, jadval-i kavakib-i surat-i havva’, ‘Index of the stars of the image of al-Hawwa’
| Material: | Acrylglas, Papier, Kunststoff |
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| Kunst Stil: | Safawiden (1506-1722) |
| Herkunftsort: | Iran, Asien |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Alle anderen Arten von Objekten |
| Material: | Acrylglas, Papier, Kunststoff |
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| Kunst Stil: | Safawiden (1506-1722) |
| Herkunftsort: | Iran, Asien |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Alle anderen Arten von Objekten |
| Adresse der Versteigerung |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London Vereinigtes Königreich | |
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