TWO DEPICTIONS OF CROUCHING LIONS

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£ 4 000
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25.04.2024 10:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 79 | TWO DEPICTIONS OF CROUCHING LIONS
TWO DEPICTIONS OF CROUCHING LIONS

ONE SIGNED MUHAMMAD HASHIM, SAFAVID IRAN, BOTH LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Ink and wash on paper, one depicting a crouching lion in a landscape, signed Muhammad Hashim, between minor marbled borders and wider gold-speckled blue margins, the other depicting a crouching lion devouring the leg of a gazelle, between minor gold illuminated peach borders on wide blue margin with gold illumination, each laid down on card, verso of both plain

First painting 2 ¾ x 5 ¼in. (7 x 13.3cm.); folio 5 ¾ x 9 7⁄8in. (14.5 x 25.1cm.); second painting 3 ¼ x 5 ¾in. (10.8 x 7.3cm.); folio 7 ¼ x 11in. (18.5 x 27.6cm.)





Provenance

Collection of Dikran Khan Kelekian, New York, by 1933



Literature

Chained Lion Devouring the Leg of a Gazelle published Catalog of an exhibition of Persian and Indian Miniature Paintings forming the Private Collection of Dikran Khan Kelekian, New York, 25 November 1933 - 31 January 1934, no.22
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