A PRINCE READING IN A FOREST

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£ 20 000
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25.04.2024 10:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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Lot 59 | A PRINCE READING IN A FOREST
A PRINCE READING IN A FOREST

PROBABLY SAFAVID QAZVIN, IRAN, CIRCA 1560

Ink and opaque pigments on paper, set within gold and polychrome rules, a narrow green border with gold floral meander, with wide gold-sprinkled buff margins, the verso with a Persian calligraphic exercise of 9ll. black nasta'liq from the Risala-yi Arba'in of Jami written on the horizontal and diagonal arranged in panels against a gold illuminated ground, set within gold and polychrome rules, with a green gold-sprinkled inner border, the gold illuminated outer border with four panels containing a repeated line of Persian in black diwani, plain buff outer margins

Painting 9 1⁄8 x 5 ¾in. (23.3 x 14.8cm.); calligraphy 11 x 8in. (28 x 21cm.); folio 16 ¾ x 11 ½in. (42.5 x 29.3cm.)





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Private American Collection by 1977, thence by descent
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