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Arts of the Islamic World Including 20th
Century Middle Eastern Painting lot 61 Sale
L01280
lot 61 (190 lots in this auction)
Portrait of a standing youth, Persia, Isfahan,
17th century, on an album page with borders from
the Farhang-i Jahangiri, Mughal, A.D.1608
London, Bond Street 3,000—5,000 GBP
Session 1, 03 May 01 10:30 AM
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium:
3,240 GBP
DESCRIPTION
Portrait
of a standing youth, Persia, Isfahan, 17th
century, on an album page with borders from the
Farhang-i Jahangiri, Mughal, A.D.1608
gouache with gold on paper, laid down on an album
page with borders of cream paper finely decorated
with animals and vegetation in gold, reverse with
leaves from a manuscript of Persian poetry
adhered to album page
The borders of this miniature are from a Mughal
manuscript of the Farhang-i Jahangiri, a
dictionary written by Jamal al-Din Husain Inju.
This manuscript, dated c.1608, was used by the
art dealer Demotte as a source of decorative
Mughal borders which he put together with other
Mughal and Persian miniatures with previously
plain borders. It is thus probable that the
present miniature was, at some stage, in the
posession of Demotte.
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