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A PRINCELY GATHERING

Lot 52
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1306567
Lot 52 | A PRINCELY GATHERING
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
A PRINCELY GATHERING
SHAYBANID BUKHARA, SECOND QUARTER 16TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, 3ll. black nasta'liq written on the diagonal in the upper left corner and 2ll. in the lower right, the text a quatrain attributed to 'Ubaydullah Bahadur Khan Ghazi, laid down within a gold border with blue cartouches containing floral arabesque alternating with red and gold pendants, gold and polychrome rules, the margins with gold floral illumination, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 6 ¾ x 4in. (17.2 x 10.2cm.); folio 13 ¼ x 8 ½in. (33.5 x 21.5cm.)




Provenance

With H. Khan Monif (d.1964), New York, no.802 (sticker on verso)



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This large painting of a courtly gathering is accompanied by a quatrain attributed to the Uzbek ruler 'Ubaydullah Khan (r.1534-9) on the subject of the beloved. It seems likely that one of the figures, or a figure in a hypothetical missing pendant painting, depicts the Uzbek Khan himself.

The present painting is particularly close to a scene of an amorous couple with attendants with which it shares the arrangement of the margins, and it may well have come from the same manuscript or album in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (acc. no. 14.584). A comparable painting, in which a chained prisoner is brought to a ruler, is signed by Mahmud Mudhahhib, a celebrated painter of the 16th-century Uzbek court (Chicago: Art Institute, acc.no. 1998.172).
Applied technique:Gouache
Place of origin:Asia, Uzbekistan
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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