ID 828709
Lot 53 | A WHITE-EARED BULBUL
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
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.)
Provenance
Collection Sevadjian, sold Hotel Drouot, Paris, 18-20 March 1961, lot 46
| Applied technique: | Painted |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Painted |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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