THE SERPENT BEARER CONSTELLATION (AL-HAWWA)

Lot 49
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Prix de départ
£ 6 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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Lot 49 | THE SERPENT BEARER CONSTELLATION (AL-HAWWA)
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£ 6 000 – 8 000
THE SERPENT BEARER CONSTELLATION (AL-HAWWA)

SAFAVID IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, faded annotations in black and red ink, the painting breaking through gold and black inner rules and within gold and black outer rules, set within gold-sprinkled margins, the verso plain, mounted, framed and glazed

Painting 9 ½ x 5 ¾in. (24 x 14.5cm.); folio 10 ½ x 6 ¾in. (26.8 x 17.2cm.)





Provenance

New York by 1971



Inscribed

At the top, surat-i havva’ u haya chunanchih … asman mi-namayad, ‘Image of the serpent carrier and the serpent as it appears [in] the sky’
Faintly written at the bottom, jadval-i kavakib-i surat-i havva’, ‘Index of the stars of the image of al-Hawwa’
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