Indo-Persian Miniature Painting

20TH CENTURY A.D.

18 in. (1.15 kg, 45.5 cm).

Framed and glazed displaying a figural panel inserted into four vertical columns of cursive script separated by red and blue bands, continued on the reverse.

Provenance

Property of a London gallery.

Literature

Cf. Christie's, Indian and Islamic Works of Art, Friday 13 October 2006, London, 2006, lot.666, for a similar scene on a 19th century A.D. Persian miniature, made in Kashmir.

Footnotes

The scene is taken from the work of Nur Al-Din ‘Abd Al-Rahman Jami’, the famous Jami, a political scholar and writer of mystical Sufi literature. It represents a scene of Yusuf and Zulaykha (the history of the biblical Joseph and the Egyptian wife of Potiphar, chief of the Pharaoh's guardsmen).

CONDITION

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