RUSTAM KICKING AWAY THE BOULDER PUSHED BY BAHMAN

Lot 41
31.03.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 41 | RUSTAM KICKING AWAY THE BOULDER PUSHED BY BAHMAN
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£ 2 500 000 – 4 000 000
RUSTAM KICKING AWAY THE BOULDER PUSHED BY BAHMAN

ATTRIBUTED TO AQA MIRAK, ASSISTED BY QASIM BIN 'ALI, SAFAVID TABRIZ, CIRCA 1530

Folio 451 from the Shah Tahmasp Shahnama, gouache heightened with silver and gold on paper, panels of Persian nasta'liq verses in four columns above and below between gold and black rules, in gold and coloured ruled margin, gold-sprinkled leaf, the reverse with 22ll. of nasta'liq arranged in four columns, an illuminated heading panel below, in similar margins

Painting 8 1⁄4 x 8 3⁄8in. (20.8 x 21.2cm.); folio 18 1⁄2 x 12 1⁄4in. (47.2 x 31.1cm.)







Provenance

Commissioned by Shah Isma'il, circa 1522

Completed under his son Shah Tahmasp, circa 1525–1540; by whom presented in 1568 to

Sultan Selim II; thence by descent

Baron Edmund de Rothschild, Paris (d.1934), purchased in 1903, thence by descent to

Baron Maurice de Rothschild, Paris, (d.1957), sold from his estate in 1959 to

Arthur A. Houghton Jr., USA by whom consigned to Agnews, London, 1977, from where sold to

The British Rail Pension Fund, sold Sotheby’s London, 23 April 1996, lot 14, to Private Collection, USA





Literature

M. B. Dickson and Stuart Cary Welch, The Houghton Shahnameh, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1981

Sheila Canby, The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp: The Persian Book of Kings, New York, 2011





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