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A Safavid nobleman standing in a landscape, signed by Shaykh 'Abbasi Persia, dated AH 1071/AD 1660-61(2) image 1
A Safavid nobleman standing in a landscape, signed by Shaykh 'Abbasi Persia, dated AH 1071/AD 1660-61(2) image 2
Lot 192

A Safavid nobleman standing in a landscape, signed by Shaykh 'Abbasi
Persia, dated AH 1071/AD 1660-61
(2)

18 June 2013, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Safavid nobleman standing in a landscape, signed by Shaykh 'Abbasi
Persia, dated AH 1071/AD 1660-61

pen and ink with some gouache on paper laid down on an 18th Century album page with gilt-decorated floral borders, signature and date at lower centre within panel, miniature 140 x 62 mm.; album page 330 x 216 mm.; and a Mughal prince, resembling the Emperor Shah Jahan, standing in a landscape holding a sarpech, Persia, 17th Century, in a similar style, on a similar 18th Century album page, unframed
miniature 150 x 58 mm.; album page 330 x 216 mm.(2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
The collection of the late Djafar Ghazi.

Shaykh 'Abbasi was active during the reigns of Shah 'Abbas II and Shah Suleyman. His style is often seen as epitomising the mixing of Persian and Indian painting, though there is no evidence that he worked in India. For examples of his work, see A. Soudavar, Art of the Persian Courts, New York 1992, pp. 367-68, nos. 146, 147; and M. Zebrowski, Deccani Painting, London 1983, p. 197).

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