A WHITE-EARED BULBUL

Lot 53
27.10.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 53 | A WHITE-EARED BULBUL
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£ 100 000 – 150 000
A WHITE-EARED BULBUL

SIGNED REZA 'ABBASI, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, CIRCA 1620

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the bulbul perches on a rock with a tree behind it, signed on the right hand side, the painting mounted as an album page with a gold speckled inner margin and outer margin illuminated with birds and insects, within gold and polychrome rules, pasted onto blue card

Painting 6 3/4 x 3 3/4in. (17 x 9.5cm.); folio 13 7/8 x 9in. (35.2 x 23cm.)





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Collection Sevadjian, sold Hotel Drouot, Paris, 18-20 March 1961, lot 46
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