拍品 55
  • 55

AN ILLUSTRATED AND ILLUMINATED LEAF FROM A MANUSCRIPT OF FIRDAUSI’S SHAHNAMEH: RUSTAM KILLING ALKUS, PERSIA, SAFAVID, THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURY |

估價
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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描述

  • painting: 26 by 19cm.leaf: 32.2 by 21.6cm.
ink and gouache heightened with gold on paper, 7 lines to the page above and below the painting, written in nasta’liq in black ink within clouds against a gold ground, the reverse with 13 lines of text alternated horizontally and obliquely against gold floral decoration, ruled in red, green, gold and blue

來源

Ex-private collection, Switzerland. 
Previously purchased at Ader Picard Tajan, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 4 March 1986, lot 309.

Condition

In good condition, stains and losses affecting mainly the borders, minor flaking to the paint and minor rubbing, as viewed.
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拍品資料及來源

Further illustrations from this same manuscript were formerly in the collection of Hagop Kevorkian, sold in these rooms, 6 December 1967, lots 42 and 43;1 December 1969, lots 107 and 108.