Live Auction 7959Art of the Islamic & Indian Worlds
FOUR PAINTED AND LACQUERED WOODEN PANELS
Lot 151

FOUR PAINTED AND LACQUERED WOODEN PANELS

SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY

Closed7 April 2011

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FOUR PAINTED AND LACQUERED WOODEN PANELS
SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY
Probably from a pair of doors, each painted in gilt and polychrome, two with a central eight-pointed figural medallion depicting a youth holding a wine cup in a floral landscape, sorrounded by four spandrels, two further rectangular panels with two medallions with scrolling floral design and spandrels, all panels with sage green ground, some rubbing to lacquer decoration
8½ x 7½in (21.6 x 19cm.); and 8 7/8 x 13 1/8 (22.4 x 33.4cm.) (4)

Private Canadian collection, since 1970s

Specialist note

Similar wooden panels in the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris have remained in their original pair of doors (Rémi Labrusse (dir.), Purs Décors?, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2007, p.175, cat.205). Other panels from the same group as those offered here were sold at Sotheby's, 21 October 1993, lot 218 and 27 April 1995, lot 326. More recently another group was also sold in these Rooms, 5 October 2010, lots 213 and 214.