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A PORTRAIT OF MUHAMMAD `ALI THE GILDER

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£ 20 000
Auction dateClassic
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 1178260
Lot 81 | A PORTRAIT OF MUHAMMAD 'ALI THE GILDER
A PORTRAIT OF MUHAMMAD 'ALI THE GILDER

ATTRIBUTED TO MU'IN MUSAVVIR, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED RAMADAN AH 1020/NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1611 AD

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, with 8ll. of black nasta'liq above arranged in 2 columns on a gold ground, inscribed, signed and dated below, set within gold and red rules, with narrow three-quarter border around the portrait in pale and dark blue with a foliate design, the margins with floral design, the verso with 24ll. black nasta'liq from a Shahnama of Firdawsi arranged in four columns with gold intercolumnar rules, set within narrow gold border and blue rules, the margins plain with catchword, mounted

Painting 6 ¼ x 3 ¾in. (16 x 9.6cm.); folio 12 5⁄8 x 7 5⁄8in. (32 x 19.4cm.)





Provenance

Anon sale, Christie's London, 20 July 1960, lot 374



Literature

Rudolf M. Riefstahl, Catalog of an Exhibition of Persian and Indian Miniature Paintings forming the Private Collection of Dikran Khan Kelekian, New York, 25 November 1933 - 31 January 1934, no.82



Inscribed

Shabih-i nadir al-‘asri mulla muhammad ‘ali muzahhib, 'Likeness of the rarity of the age, Mulla Muhammad 'Ali the Illuminator (Muzahhib)'

ba-tarikh-i shahr-i ramazan al-mubarak sana 1020 ustadam riza-i ‘abbasi sakhta bud, 'My master Reza-i 'Abbasi had created [it] on the date of the month of Ramadan al-Mubarak, year 1020 (1611)'
Medium:Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic
Art style:Safavid (1506-1722)
Place of origin:Iran, Asia
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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