BY KHODA-DAD KHAN ZAND, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1273/1856-57 AD

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A YOUNG COUPLE IN A GARDEN
BY KHODA-DAD KHAN ZAND, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1273/1856-57 AD
Gouache on paper, a young man in an embroidered coat sits on a chair holding an apple, while a young woman stands beside with her hands on his shoulder, in a romantic garden with a bed of roses, two pairs of entwined trees and mountains beyond, line of white nasta'liq with date, generally good condition, mounted, framed and glazed
10¼ x 7in. (25.5 x 18cm.)

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Lot Essay

By the same artist as the previous lot.

The inscriptions read

raqam-e bande-ye shahanshah-e ‘alam panah khodad khan-e zand 1273/"Drawn by the servant of the King of Kings, the Refuge to the World, Khoda-Dad Khan Zand 1273 (1856-7)"

khiyal-e khod-e naqqash keh do yar-e movafeq ba ham ‘ishq bazi mikonand "A personal fancy of the painter of two courting lovers"

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