ID 1306500
Lot 63 | TWO ILLUSTRATED FOLIOS FROM A HAFT AWRANG OF JAMI (D.1492)
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 8 000
PROBABLY SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
The first an illustration from Yusuf wa Zulaykha, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, one line of black nasta'liq above and below arranged in four columns, four columns of further text written on the diagonal, five triangular gold and polychrome illuminated panels, set within gold and polychrome rules, plain margins with single blue outer rule, verso with text similarly arranged and a heading in white nasta'liq on a gold ground, mounted on card; the second an illustration from Layla wa Majnun, opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, 3ll. black nasta'liq above and 2ll. below arranged in four columns, four columns of further text written at the diagonal, five triangular gold and polychrome illuminated panels, set within gold and polychrome rules, plain margins with single blue outer rule, verso with text similarly arranged and a heading in white nasta'liq on a gold ground, mounted on card
First painting 5 1/8 x 3in. (13.2 x 7.5cm.); Second painting 4 ¼ x 3in. (10.9 x 7.5cm.); text panel 10 x 6 ¾in. (25.4 x 17.3cm.); folio 16 ¼ x 10 5/8in. (41.4 x 27.1cm.)
Provenance
Paul Richard Loewi (1879-1939)
Thence by descent to the current owner
Literature
Maggs Bros Ltd. Oriental Miniatures & Illumination, Bulletin no. 1, December 1961, no. 1-3 (illustrated)
Robert Hillenbrand, Imperial Images in Persian Painting, Edinburgh, 1977, pp. 23, 72, 84, nos. 29, 163, 192
Applied technique: | Gouache |
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Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Applied technique: | Gouache |
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Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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