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Country of Origin: Isfahan
Persia
JBOC Comments:
Auction Catalogue Description:
Arts of the Islamic World
SALE L05221 LOT 32
SESSION 1 | 12 Oct 05 10:30 AM.
London, New Bond Street
A PORTRAIT OF A KNEELING YOUTH, ISFAHAN, PERSIA,
EARLY 17TH CENTURY
3,000—5,000 GBP
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium:
3,000 GBP
MEASUREMENTS
measurements note
miniature 21.8 by 15cm. leaf 32.1 by 23.4cm.
DESCRIPTION
ink heightened with gold on buff paper,
uncoloured ground decorated with flowers and
clouds in gold, inscription at lower left, inner
borders of gold-decorated orange and blue paper,
outer borders of stout buff paper decorated with
gold flowers
CATALOGUE NOTE
This is a fine drawing typical of the Isfahan
school of the seventeenth century, but the face
of the youth is slightly unusual, with a more
rounded nose than normal and wide, almost
oriental features. This facial type appears on a
drawing of a reclining woman in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York (12.223.3, see
Swietochowski 1989, no.20).
There is a semi-legible inscription, probably an
artist's signature, at the lower left which may
read "Kamal al-Katib" or "Jamal
al-Katib".
Seen on www.Sothebys.com
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