Arts of the Islamic World and India, including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World and India, including Fine Rugs and Carpets
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April 26, 01:36 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
gouache heightened with gold on paper, calligraphic panels above and below, laid down on a later album page with flowering plants and floral vines reserved on a buff ground, enclosed by gold rules and a gold arabesque blue border
painting: 13 by 8.4cm.
leaf: 27.5 by 17.2cm.
inscriptions
An unidentified Persian couplet that makes use of hunting imagery:
‘That knavish idol set out to hunt,
It hunted hearts with the arrow of its glances’
A comparable painting of a hunt attributed to Muhammad Sharif is in the Freer Gallery of Art (Beach 2012, no.46). Please see note to Lot 54 for a discussion of this group of hunting paintings and the attribution to Muhammad Sharif.