ID 1306572
Lot 58 | A PRINCE READING IN A FOREST
Estimate value
£ 12 000 – 18 000
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.)
Provenance
Private American Collection by 1977, thence by descent
| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings, Drawings |
| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings, Drawings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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