ID 828840
Lot 91 | A BATHING BEAUTY
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
THE PAINTING INDIA, DECCAN, PROBABLY AHMADNAGAR, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY; THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED MALIK, SAFAVID IRAN, MID 16TH CENTURY
Verso with a drawing of a nude girl holding a translucent muslin skirt, on gold ground illustrated with floral bushes in bright opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver, within gold and polychrome rules and gold-speckled margins, recto with an illuminated calligraphic panel with five lines of fine black nasta'liq written diagonally, signed Malik, within gold and polychrome rules and gold-speckled orange margins
Painting 8 5/8 x 5 3/4in. (22 x 14.5cm.); calligraphic panel 9 x 5 3/4in. (22.8 x 14.5cm.); folio 11 3/4 x 7 3/4in. (29.8 x 19.8cm.)
Provenance
Franz Schaurte, Germany, (d. 1922)
Thence by descent to previous owner
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Gold, Paper, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
| Genre: | Nude art, Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Gold, Paper, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
| Genre: | Nude art, Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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