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A PRINCE IN A GARDEN
BUKHARA, UZBEKISTAN, CIRCA 1525-35
Opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver
on paper, set between gold and polychrome rules,
the buff margins with gold illumination cropped,
the reverse plain
Painting 9º x 5qin. (23.7 x 14cm.);
folio 9¬ x 6¬in. (24.5 x 17cm.)
£10,000-15,000 US$12,000-17,000
€12,000-17,000
The Bukharan school of painting, which was
influenced by the Herat style, is characterized by
a bright palette, golden skies, and the use of a
black ground to set off fine arabesque designs.
This scene of an enthroned prince in a chahar
bagh garden, with the lavishly dressed attendants
and fine metal objects and ceramics, provides a
glimpse into the types of luxury goods found in
the early sixteenth century. This painting would
have once belonged to a lavishly illustrated
Persian epic. A manuscript of Yusuz wa Zuleykha
illustrated by Mahmud Muzahhib, including a
Painting which depicts Yusuf enthroned with
female attendants also in a chahar bagh was sold
in these Rooms, 10 April 2014, lot 10. Mahmud
al-Muzahhib was the most important artist of θ 42
his generation in Bukhara, the leading proponent KAMAL AL-DIN KNOWN AS VAHSHI BAQFI (D. 1583):
of the Bukhara school of painting under the FARHAD VA SHIRIN
Shaybanids, especially the great bibliophile SIGNED HUSAYN AL-TABRIZI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
PROVENANCE:
Sultan 'Abd al-Aziz. Poetry, Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, 35ff. as numbered plus Anon sale, Christie's, London, 25th April 2013, lot 8
four fly leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in two columns
Another Bukhara painting depicting an outdoor with double gold intercolumnar rules filled with gold and blue flowering Muhammad Husayn al-Tabrizi (d. 17 Rajab AH 985/30 September 1577
scene was sold in these Rooms, 26 October 2017, vine and small catchwords at the bottom, text panels laid down within gold AD) was a known Safavid calligrapher of nasta'liq. He was in charge of the
lot 90. and polychrome rules on wide coloured margins decorated in gold with fine inscriptions on monuments and government buildings during the reign of
landscapes filled with foliage and real and fantastic birds and mammals,
Shah Isma'il II (AH 984-85/1576-78 AD). None of his recorded works are
headings in gold nasta'liq on cartouches filled with and surrounded by floral
dated (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Vol. III, Tehran, 1348
illumination, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece,
sh, pp. 680-83). The colophon of our manuscript mentions the patron
text on the first and final bifolia in clouds reserved against gold ground, with
one contemporaneous miniature in gold and polychrome, colophon signed, as Tahmasp Quli Beyga. As well as library inspection inscriptions, the
folio 1r. with numerous later owner's stamps, some water staining mostly manuscript has various Mughal seals, including that of I'timad Khan, an
affecting margins, in later Indian gold stamped binding, brown morocco official of Shah Jahan, dated AH 1063/1652-53 AD; 'Abdullah, born into
doublures familial service (khanah-zad) to 'Alamgir (Aurangzeb) and Muhammad Najm
Text panel 6½ x 3in. (16.4 x 7.6cm.); folio 11.5 x 6win. (29.5 x 17.7cm.) al-din Khan, Chief Qadi under Aurangzeb, dated AH 1206/1791-92 AD.
£15,000-20,000 US$18,000-23,000
€18,000-23,000 For a note on illuminated marginal borders in the Safavid period please see
lot 59 in this sale.

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