£5,000 - £7,000
ARCHAISTIC SAFAVID TINTED DRAWING, IRAN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY.
An archaistic composition in vertical format with pounced lines and heightened with gold on paper, comprising two young figures (princely youths both in elaborate turbans and belts) wrestling in an idealised background with saz leaves, one line of nastaliq calligraphy in three columns above and below, set within two borders with floral trellis on pink and green, supervision seal with the date at the back (1135AH-1917AD), folio 25.3 x 16cm, miniature 9.5 x 18cm. Provenance Helen & Joe Darion, New York
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