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Auction archive: Lot number 1

Twenty-four Illustrated folios from a ?Shahnameh

Auction 27.04.1993
27 Apr 1993
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,316 - US$3,089
Price realised:
£1,380
ca. US$2,131
Auction archive: Lot number 1

Twenty-four Illustrated folios from a ?Shahnameh

Auction 27.04.1993
27 Apr 1993
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,316 - US$3,089
Price realised:
£1,380
ca. US$2,131
Beschreibung:

Twenty-four Illustrated folios from a ?Shahnameh Mughal, seventeenth century Persian manuscript on buff paper, 24ff., each with 29ll. of black nasta'liq , intercolumnar and interlinear lines in gold between black rules, gold, red and blue margins between black rules, each folio with an illustration occupying two columns in gouache heightened with gold depicting various scenes of an historical epic, (some flaking and worming), mounted, framed and glazed in four groups of six each folio 9½ x 6in. (24.4 x 15cm.) (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 1
Auction:
Datum:
27 Apr 1993
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

Twenty-four Illustrated folios from a ?Shahnameh Mughal, seventeenth century Persian manuscript on buff paper, 24ff., each with 29ll. of black nasta'liq , intercolumnar and interlinear lines in gold between black rules, gold, red and blue margins between black rules, each folio with an illustration occupying two columns in gouache heightened with gold depicting various scenes of an historical epic, (some flaking and worming), mounted, framed and glazed in four groups of six each folio 9½ x 6in. (24.4 x 15cm.) (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 1
Auction:
Datum:
27 Apr 1993
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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