Lot 54
  • 54

Grand fragment d’un velours, Iran, Ispahan, art safavide, début du XVIIème siècle

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Description

façonné et broché de fils métaliques, orné d'une femme debout dans un paysage, tenant une coupe dans la main droite et une bouteille dans la main gauche, vétûe d'une longue robe drapée, coiffure richement perlée, inscription en coufique probablement la signature de (Khawaja) Guyath al-Din ; déchirures, usures, manques, fragmentaire

Exhibited

Royal Academy, London, 1931

Literature

International Exhibition of Persian Art, Royal Academy, London, 1931

Condition

Fragmentary, tears, faded, associated discoloration, velvet and metal threads distressed, mounted on canvas backing, with a squared kufic inscription probably signature of (khawaja) Guyath al-Din. as viewed.
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Catalogue Note

Un fragment de plus grande taille, orné de deux figures féminines monumentales, stylistiquement proche du nôtre, est conservé à la David Collection in. no. 1/1988 (Von Folsach, K., Art from the world of Islam in the David Collection, Copenhague, 2001, cat.665).