TWO ILLUSTRATED FOLIOS FROM A HAFT AWRANG OF JAMI (D.1492)

Lot 63
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 63 | TWO ILLUSTRATED FOLIOS FROM A HAFT AWRANG OF JAMI (D.1492)
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£ 6 000 – 8 000
TWO ILLUSTRATED FOLIOS FROM A HAFT AWRANG OF JAMI (D.1492)
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
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