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LOT 2216
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.
ProvenanceProperty of a London gallery.
LiteratureCf. 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.
FootnotesThe 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).
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LOT 2216
Indo-Persian Miniature Painting
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
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Indo-Persian Miniature Painting
20th century A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
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. 1.15 kg, 45.5 cm
Property of a London gallery.
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). -
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