ISKANDAR DISCOVERS ELIAS AND KHIZR AT THE WELL OF LIFE

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Lot 58 | ISKANDAR DISCOVERS ELIAS AND KHIZR AT THE WELL OF LIFE
ISKANDAR DISCOVERS ELIAS AND KHIZR AT THE WELL OF LIFE

THE PAINTING ATTRIBUTED TO 'ARTIST A', CALLIGRAPHY BY QUTB AL-DIN IBN HASAN AL-TURI, SAFAVID QAZVIN OR MASHHAD, IRAN, AH 988/1580 AD

From a Shahnama of Firdawsi, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, 8ll. black nasta'liq above divided into four columns with red and blue illuminated intercolumnar decoration, within gold and polychrome rules, verso with 23ll. text similarly arranged with gold intercolumnar rules and one chapter heading in larger gold nasta'liq, catchword, blue stamp in the margin

Text panel 9 ½ x 5 7/8in. (24.2 x 15cm.); folio 13 3/8 x 9in. (34 x 23.8cm.)





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Anon sale, Sotheby's London, 22 April 1980, lot 271 (original manuscript)
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