Lot 54
54
A MULLAH SEATED UNDER A TREE
AN ASCETIC SEATED UNDER A TREE

PROBABLY ISFAHAN, IRAN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

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AN ASCETIC SEATED UNDER A TREE
PROBABLY ISFAHAN, IRAN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Ink and opaque pigments on paper mounted on card, the pot-bellied figure without a turban is seated cross-legged under a leafy tree, the coloured pigments probably added later, set inside gold speckled margins with a nasta'liq inscription in the top left hand corner
Painting 6 7/8 x 3¼in. (17 x 8cm.); folio 9¼ x 6in.(23.5 x 15cm.)
Engraved
In the upper left corner, molla hasan-e sar berehneh, 'Mullah Hassan the naked headed'

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Lot Essay

A seated dervish with a very similar expression in the Hermitage is signed by Muhammad Muhsin and dated to the mid 17th century, (Inv. VP-734; Adel Adamova, Persian Painting and Drawing from the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, 1996, p.231, no.27).

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