Lot 21Y
Shah 'Abbas holding court, signed by Mirza Aga Imami Persia, Isfahan, second quarter of the 20th Century(3)
2 April 2009, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £960 inc. premium
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Persia, Isfahan, second quarter of the 20th Century
Persia, Isfahan, second quarter of the 20th Century
gouache on ivory, framed, 155 x 70 mm.; a portrait of a seated youth beside a willow tree, holding a pomegranate, a metal wine flask in the foreground, attributed to Mirza Muhammad Mussavar, Persia, Isfahan, second quarter of the 20th Century, ink with some use of gold on cream-coloured paper, outer borders richly decorated with intertwining vegetal motifs in black and gold, slightly browned, 270 x 201 mm.; and a drawing of Shaykh San'an and the Christian maiden, gouache on bone, signed by Imami, inscribed in English Happy Christmas to You M. Jorjani, in a khatamkari frame
145 x 104 mm.(3)
145 x 104 mm.(3)
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Provenance:
H. A. Whishaw and thence by descent.