THREE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE KHAMSA OF NIZAMI

Lot 29
27.04.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 29 | THREE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE KHAMSA OF NIZAMI
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£ 8 000 – 12 000
THREE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE KHAMSA OF NIZAMI

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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