AN ALBUM PAGE

Lot 71
01.05.2025 11:00UTC +01:00
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Starting price
£ 30 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1404777
Lot 71 | AN ALBUM PAGE
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
AN ALBUM PAGE
MUGHAL INDIA, THE PAINTING LATE 16TH OR EARLY 17TH CENTURY, THE CALLIGRAPHY AND MARGINS MID-18TH CENTURY
Verso with a composite painting of a portly scribe with a yogi on the left and a Mughal officer on the right, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the scribe identified in black nasta'liq, laid down within gold and black rules on margins with gold floral scrolls, the recto with a nasta'liq quatrain laid down with later illumination, the margins decorated with a gold floral lattice
Painting 5 ½ x 8 ½in. (13.6 x 21.4cm.); album page 12 x 8 ¼in. (30.3 x 21cm.)




Provenance

US trade by 1980



Engraved

In nasta'liq above the scribe pisar-i farrukh fal, 'The son of Farrukh Fal'
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