ID 828670
Lot 58 | A KNEELING YOUTH HOLDING A CUP
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 40 000
SAFAVID IRAN, CIRCA 1600
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, laid down between gold and black rules, within inner borders with twelve panels of poetic verse in black nasta'liq and outer black border with gold split palmettes and gold and polychrome rules on buff margin with gold arabesques, pasted on card and the reverse with inscriptions in pencil
Painting 6 1/2 x 3 3/4in. (16.5 x 9.5cm.); folio 13 1/2 x 9in. (34.3 x 23cm.)
Provenance
Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, de-accessioned,
Anon sale, Sotheby's, London, 15th April 1985, lot 15.
Literature
Pratapaditya Pal (ed.), Islamic Art. The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection. Gift of Joan Palevsky, Los Angeles, 1973, no.227, pp.133-34.
| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
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