Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs & Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs & Carpets
A DRAWING OF A PERI, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, 16TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
June 10, 06:00 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A DRAWING OF A PERI, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, 16TH CENTURY
ink heightened with gold on paper, laid down on an album page with inner gold-flecked blue borders, outer margins filled with flora and fauna in gold
drawing: 14.3 by 7cm.
leaf: 31 by 21cm.
Please note: Condition 9 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers for this sale is not applicable to this lot.
Sotheby’s London, An Eye for Opulence, 24 April 2012, lot 263.
A number of Ottoman drawings of peris exist as part of albums, including one in the Topkapi Palace Museum, two pages of which are published in E. Atil, Turkish Art, exhib. cat. Washington, 1980, pp.102-3, nos.48a & b. The present finely-executed example shares characteristics with both these drawings, in the treatment of both the face and hat of the former, and the wings and loose ribbons of the latter (attributed to the artist Veli can). Other examples can be found in the Museé Jaquemart-André, Paris and the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC (see Petsopoulos 1982, pp.196-7, nos.189-190), while a seated peri was in the collection of Edwin Binney III (published in E. Binney III, Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney III, Portland, 1979, pp.76-77, no.47).