A COURTIER HOLDING A BOTTLE

Lot 71
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 10 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1306435
Lot 71 | A COURTIER HOLDING A BOTTLE
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
A COURTIER HOLDING A BOTTLE
SIGNED MUHAMMAD 'ALI, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, CIRCA 1650
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, inscribed lower left, laid down within narrow buff and gold-sprinkled borders and polychrome rules in green margins decorated with gold illuminated animals and birds, the verso plain, two collection stickers
Painting 4 ½ x 1 3/8in. (11.5 x 4.3cm.); folio 10 1/8 x 6in. (25.7 x 15.4cm.)




Provenance

H. Kevorkian (d. 1962), New York, no.1750 (per sticker on reverse)
'Property of a Qajar Prince and his Family', Christie’s London, 19 October 1993, lot 107
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