ID 1031065
Lot 92 | SIX DRAWINGS
Estimate value
£ 2 000 – 3 000
LATE ZAND OR QAJAR IRAN, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY
Pen, ink and opaque pigments on paper, some heightened with gold, comprising two drawings of bears mounted as album pages, a drawing of a seated princess and old man, a princess conversing with a dervish, a dervish in a gold robe mounted as an album page, a dervish on an ox mounted as an album page, three with flyleaves
The largest folio 16 ¼ x 11 ¼in. (41.3 x 28.5cm.)
Provenance
The two drawings of bears: H. Kevorkian Collection, nos. 219 and 386, Sotheby's London, 16 April 1984, lot 99,
Princess and Dervish with mythical animals and drawing of a seated dervish: Anon sale, Christie's London, 20 October 1994, lot 300
Applied technique: | Watercolor on paper |
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Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
Historical era: | Qajar dynasty |
Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Applied technique: | Watercolor on paper |
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Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
Historical era: | Qajar dynasty |
Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | ||||||
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