ID 932231
Lot 29 | THREE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE KHAMSA OF NIZAMI
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, SOUTH IRAN, CIRCA 1520
The paintings include Bahram pins a lion and a wild ass with a single arrows, Khusraw sees Shirin bathing, and the battle of Khusraw and Bahram Chubin, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, four columns of black nasta'liq above and below, within gold, black and blue rules, the reverse with 23ll. black nasta'liq arranged in four columns written horizontally and diagonally, heading in gold within foliate cartouches
Paintings 6 x 4 1/4in. (15.3 x 10.4cm.); text panels 8 1/2 x 4 1/2in. (21.8 x 11.4cm.); folios 11 3/4 x 7 1/2in. (29.6 x 19cm.)
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| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
| 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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