THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD MEETS JESUS IN THE BAYT AL-MA`MUR AND THE ARRIVAL AT THE FOURTH HEAVEN

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Lot 35 | THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD MEETS JESUS IN THE BAYT AL-MA'MUR AND THE ARRIVAL AT THE FOURTH HEAVEN
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THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD MEETS JESUS IN THE BAYT AL-MA'MUR AND THE ARRIVAL AT THE FOURTH HEAVEN
COMMISSIONED BY SULTAN ABU SA'ID GURKAN, TIMURID HERAT, AFGHANISTAN, PROBABLY 1466
A folio from the Nahj al-Faradis of Al-Sara'i, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, recto with the Prophet arriving in the Fourth Heaven, verso with the Prophet meeting Jesus, each with 6ll. black Uyghur above, key words in gold, within gold and blue rules, the margins plain, marginal annotations in Arabic
Folio 16 1/8 x 11 ¾in. (41.1 x 29.7cm.)




Provenance

Made for Sultan Abu Sa'id Gurkan, Herat (r. 1458-1469)
Private Collection, UK (inherited through family)
With Francesca Galloway, May 2015



Literature

Barbara D. Boehm and Melanie Holcomb (eds.), Jerusalem 1000-1400, Every People Under Heaven, New York, 2016, no.149a, p.295
Stéphane Castelluccio, Amin Jaffer and Tsuyoshi Tane, Treasures of the Al Thani Collection at the Hôtel de la Marine, Paris, 2021, p.269; illus. pp.268, 270-71



Exhibited

Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 26 September 2016-8 January 2017
Treasures of the Al-Thani Collection, Hôtel de la Marine, Paris, 18 November 2021-31 October 2022



Engraved

In the kufic on top of the pavilion (verso), 'This is the House of Happiness and the Place of the Pure One and of Chastity and the Frequented House'
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