ID 727239
Lot 13 | ARABIC QASIDAS
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 5 000
QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER, COPIED FROM A SAFAVID ORIGINAL
Poetry, Arabic manuscript on paper, 44ff., plus two flyleaves, with small black naskh interspersed with large lines of thuluth, smaller lines of thuluth written on the diagonal to the right, keywords picked out in red, 3ff. signed and dated, a bifolio with two illustrations after each qasida, folios laid down within purple paper margins with gold floral illumination, frontispiece later added, in red gilt-stamped binding
Text panel 8 3⁄4 x 6 1⁄2in. (22.4 x 16.6cm.); folio 14 3⁄8 x 10 1⁄4in. (36.4 x 26.1cm.)
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| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts |
| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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