Lot 24
Two scenes from the story of Shaykh San'an and the Christian maiden, depicting the maiden offering a bowl of wine to the Shaykh, and San'an looking at a bearded man lying on the ground Persia, Isfahan, first half of the 20th Century(2)
2 April 2009, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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Find your local specialistTwo scenes from the story of Shaykh San'an and the Christian maiden, depicting the maiden offering a bowl of wine to the Shaykh, and San'an looking at a bearded man lying on the ground
Persia, Isfahan, first half of the 20th Century
Persia, Isfahan, first half of the 20th Century
ink drawing in black and gold on cream-coloured paper, inner and outer margins decorated with a geometric motif in silver, couplets of Persian poetry written in nasta'liq script in panels above doors, outer borders richly decorated with an intertwining vegetal motif in black and arabesques in gold, in original khatamkari frames
340 x 285 mm.(2)
340 x 285 mm.(2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
H. A. Whishaw and thence by descent.