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Auction archive: Lot number 18

YOUTHS CONVERSING BY A STREAM AT DUSK

Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$57,256 - US$85,884
Price realised:
£50,000
ca. US$71,570
Auction archive: Lot number 18

YOUTHS CONVERSING BY A STREAM AT DUSK

Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$57,256 - US$85,884
Price realised:
£50,000
ca. US$71,570
Beschreibung:

YOUTHS CONVERSING BY A STREAM AT DUSK
MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY, THE BORDERS SIGNED [MUHAMMAD] BAQIR, IRAN, DATED AH 1181/1767-68 AD
YOUTHS CONVERSING BY A STREAM AT DUSK MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY, THE BORDERS SIGNED [MUHAMMAD] BAQIR, IRAN, DATED AH 1181/1767-68 AD Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, two youths sitting either side of a river as the sun sets behind them, engage in conversation, one of them dressed as a dervish, the river bank lined with brightly coloured flowers, attendants play music and serve wine, the horizon with a domed temple and an encampment of ascetics under a brightly coloured sky, miniature extended at top, set within minor gilt floral scrolling vine on red ground inside wide signed polychrome floral margins, mounted on card, reverse with French export stamp Painting 11½ x 6¾in. (29.3 x 17.5cm.); folio 18 3/8 x 12¼in. (46.8 x 31cm.)

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
21 Apr 2016
Auction house:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

YOUTHS CONVERSING BY A STREAM AT DUSK
MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY, THE BORDERS SIGNED [MUHAMMAD] BAQIR, IRAN, DATED AH 1181/1767-68 AD
YOUTHS CONVERSING BY A STREAM AT DUSK MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY, THE BORDERS SIGNED [MUHAMMAD] BAQIR, IRAN, DATED AH 1181/1767-68 AD Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, two youths sitting either side of a river as the sun sets behind them, engage in conversation, one of them dressed as a dervish, the river bank lined with brightly coloured flowers, attendants play music and serve wine, the horizon with a domed temple and an encampment of ascetics under a brightly coloured sky, miniature extended at top, set within minor gilt floral scrolling vine on red ground inside wide signed polychrome floral margins, mounted on card, reverse with French export stamp Painting 11½ x 6¾in. (29.3 x 17.5cm.); folio 18 3/8 x 12¼in. (46.8 x 31cm.)

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
21 Apr 2016
Auction house:
Christie's
London
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