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A KNEELING SAGE
ISFAHAN, CIRCA 1630
Watercolour on buff card, a squatting turbanned sage with long white beard, aubergine robe, yellow scarf and prayer beads in his right hand, within pink borders with blue floral illumination and calligraphic bands, laid down on album leaf with gold floral illumination, glazed and framed, with minor damages
Miniature 5½ x 3in. (13.7 x 7.7cm.); Folio 10½ x 7 1/8in. (26.6 x 18.1cm.)
ISFAHAN, CIRCA 1630
Watercolour on buff card, a squatting turbanned sage with long white beard, aubergine robe, yellow scarf and prayer beads in his right hand, within pink borders with blue floral illumination and calligraphic bands, laid down on album leaf with gold floral illumination, glazed and framed, with minor damages
Miniature 5½ x 3in. (13.7 x 7.7cm.); Folio 10½ x 7 1/8in. (26.6 x 18.1cm.)
Provenance
Hagop Kevorkian Fund, sold Sotheby's London, 21 April 1980, lot 83 (to present vendor)
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