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A PRIVATE COLLECTION DONATED TO BENEFIT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
AN ANIMAL COMBAT SCENE
WITH ATTRIBUTION TO REZA-I 'ABBASI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED 1 SHAWWAL AH 1041/21 APRIL 1632 AD
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AN ANIMAL COMBAT SCENE
WITH ATTRIBUTION TO REZA-I 'ABBASI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED 1 SHAWWAL AH 1041/21 APRIL 1632 AD
Pen and ink on paper, a dragon coiled around a gazelle is engaged in fierce combat with a pouncing lion, from the rocky outcrop beyond them a single figure looks on, with later attribution to Reza-i 'Abbasi and date of Shawwal 1061 along the lower edge, later owner's stamp in the lower right hand corner, laid down between pink borders on brown card and white paper
Drawing 5 x 8½in. (12.4 x 20.5cm.); folio 7 7/8 x 9¾in. (20 x 24.8cm.)
WITH ATTRIBUTION TO REZA-I 'ABBASI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED 1 SHAWWAL AH 1041/21 APRIL 1632 AD
Pen and ink on paper, a dragon coiled around a gazelle is engaged in fierce combat with a pouncing lion, from the rocky outcrop beyond them a single figure looks on, with later attribution to Reza-i 'Abbasi and date of Shawwal 1061 along the lower edge, later owner's stamp in the lower right hand corner, laid down between pink borders on brown card and white paper
Drawing 5 x 8½in. (12.4 x 20.5cm.); folio 7 7/8 x 9¾in. (20 x 24.8cm.)
Provenance
Anon sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 April 1995, lot 91
Engraved
Along the lower edge, ghorreh-ye shavval ba eqbal sana 1041 be etmam rasid raqam-e kamine Reza 'Abbasi, 'It was completed on the first of Shawwal, with good fortune, year 1041. Drawing of the humble Reza-i 'Abbasi'
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