AN IMAGINARY POPPY

Lot 81
27.04.2023 10:00UTC +01:00
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ID 932085
Lot 81 | AN IMAGINARY POPPY
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 8 000
AN IMAGINARY POPPY

SIGNED MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM MASHHADI, DECCAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1700

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within blue and gold margins with black rules, the reverse with Persian poetry arranged in 9ll. black nasta'liq in clouds against gold and polychrome illuminated ground, set within blue and gold borders, illuminated foliate margins with double black outer rules

Painting 6 1/8 x 2 3/4in. (15.5 x 6.5cm.); folio 4 7/8 x 8 1/8in. (20.6 x 12.4cm.)





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