ID 1306525
Lot 72 | A SUFI DERVISH
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000
SIGNED MUHAMMAD QASIM, SAFAVID MASHHAD OR ISFAHAN, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY
Ink and wash on paper, signed Muhammad Qasim along the lower edge of the painting, set within gold and polychrome rules and a narrow yellow gold-illuminated border, the green margins decorated with gold floral pattern, gold and polychrome outer rules, plain card outer margin, the verso plain, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 7 ½ x 4 ¾in. (19 x 12.3cm.); folio 14 ½ x 11 ¾in. (36.2 x 30cm.)
Provenance
An Interesting Collection of Oriental Miniatures, Sotheby's New York, 11 April 1972, lot 16 (part lot)
Engraved
In the lower left corner of the painting, raqam-i kamina muhammad qasim mussavir tabrizi,
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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