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Lot 32

A standing youth, holding a wine cup, signed by Muhammad Zarif
Ottoman Turkey, 18th Century

11 June 2020, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£6,000 - £8,000

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A standing youth, holding a wine cup, signed by Muhammad Zarif
Ottoman Turkey, 18th Century

pencil with some colour on paper, laid down on an album page with a lion and deer, and birds amidst trees and foliage in gold on a green ground, signed in nasta'liq script at lower left
drawing 165 x 87 mm.; album page 287 x 177 mm.

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Provenance
Auction, Drouot, Paris, 13th May [?] 1957, lot 50 (according to handwritten note in French on the backboard).

The inscription reads 'Drawn by the servant (of God) Muhammad Zarif'. The artist is apparently unrecorded.

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