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A RARE PAINTING BY
THE MASTER ARTIST REZA 'ABBASI
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A WHITE-EARED BULBUL
SIGNED REZA 'ABBASI, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, CIRCA 1620
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the bulbul perches on a rock
with a tree behind it, signed on the right hand side, the painting mounted as an
album page with a gold speckled inner margin and outer margin illuminated
with birds and insects, within gold and polychrome rules, pasted onto blue
card
Painting 6æ x 3æin. (17 x 9.5cm.); folio 13w x 9in. (35.2 x 23cm.)
£100,000-150,000 US$120,000-170,000
€120,000-170,000
PROVENANCE:
Collection Sevadjian, sold Hotel Drouot, Paris, 18-20 March 1961, lot 46
The Sevadjian catalogue in which this lot sold, 18-20 March 1961, lot 46
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