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RUSTAM LASSOES THE KING OF SHAM

Lot 52
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Lot 52 | RUSTAM LASSOES THE KING OF SHAM
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RUSTAM LASSOES THE KING OF SHAM

BY SIYAVUSH, QAZVIN, SAFAVID IRAN, 1576 OR 1577

An illustrated folio from the Shahnama of Firdawsi, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, four columns of black nasta'liq above and below, ascribed to Siyavush on lower right corner, within gold and polychrome rules, reverse with 22ll. of nasta'liq, flanked by a column of 20ll. of nasta'liq written on the diagonal, a repaired tear to lower right, overall good condition

Painting 10 x 7 7⁄8in. (26.7 x 20cm.); text panel 15 3⁄8 x 9 1⁄4in. (39.2 x 23.4cm.); folio 18 1⁄8 x 12 3⁄8in. (45.9 x 31.3cm.)







Literature

B. W. Robinson, Persian Miniature Paintings from British Collections, London, 1951, no.62, p.21 (as Shiraz work, manually amended in the author’s personal copy to read Qazvin)

Roman Ghirschman, Kunstschatze aus Iran: Kunstschatze aus Iran von der prähistorischen bis zur islamischen Zeit, Zurich, 1962, no.1004

B. W. Robinson, “Persian Painting” in The Concise Encyclopaedia of Antiques, V, ed. L. G. G. Ramsay, London, 1961, 77 and pl.55D

B. W. Robinson, “Persian Painting” in The Complete Encyclopaedia of Antiques, ed. L. G. G. Ramsay, London, 1962, 817 and pl.296C

B. W. Robinson, Persian Drawings, New York, 1965, p.135, pl. 43 (colour).

B. W. Robinson, Persian Miniature Paintings, London, 1965, p. 16, pl. 28.

B. W. Robinson, Persian Painting from collections in the British Isles, London, 1967, no. 56(c).

Anthony Welch, Artists for the Shah, Yale, 1976, pp.22, 25 and fig.1

B. W. Robinson, "Isma'il II's Copy of the Shahnama", Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, vol. 14, 1976, p. 4, no. 36.

Robert Hillenbrand, Imperial Images in Persian Painting, exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh, 1977, p. 68, no. 155.

B.W. Robinson, Studies in Persian Art, Vol. II, London, 1993, p.290







Exhibited

Exposition d’art persan, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, 1912, (parent manuscript)

Kunstschatze aus Iran, Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1962

Persian Painting from collections in the British Isles, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1967

Imperial Images in Persian Painting, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, August-September, 1977
Art style:Safavid (1506-1722)
Place of origin:Iran, Asia
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