ID 828683
Lot 42 | KAMAL AL-DIN KNOWN AS VAHSHI BAQFI (D. 1583): FARHAD VA SHIRIN
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 20 000
SIGNED HUSAYN AL-TABRIZI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Poetry, Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, 35ff. as numbered plus four fly leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in two columns with double gold intercolumnar rules filled with gold and blue flowering vine and small catchwords at the bottom, text panels laid down within gold and polychrome rules on wide coloured margins decorated in gold with fine landscapes filled with foliage and real and fantastic birds and mammals, headings in gold nasta'liq on cartouches filled with and surrounded by floral illumination, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, text on the first and final bifolia in clouds reserved against gold ground, with one contemporaneous miniature in gold and polychrome, colophon signed, folio 1r. with numerous later owner's stamps, some water staining mostly affecting margins, in later Indian gold stamped binding, brown morocco doublures
Text panel 61/2 x 3in. (16.4 x 7.6cm.); folio 11.5 x 6 7/8in. (29.5 x 17.7cm.)
Provenance
Anon sale, Christie's, London, 25th April 2013, lot 8
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.
| 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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