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SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY
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AN EMACIATED HORSE
SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY
Opaque and transparent pigments on paper, the horse grazing, a crow on its rump, a solitary tree on a rocky outcrop in the background, erroneous attribution to Aqa Mirak below, the wide borders with a dragon and simurgh fighting, a feline pouncing on a deer and a prancing ram amidst oversize flowers and swaying tendrils, in gold highlighted in dark green, the reverse with former owner's notes and collection label, mounted
Painting 4 1/8 x 2 ¾in. (10.5 x 7cm.); folio 15 x 10 ¾in. (38 x 27.4cm.)
SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY
Opaque and transparent pigments on paper, the horse grazing, a crow on its rump, a solitary tree on a rocky outcrop in the background, erroneous attribution to Aqa Mirak below, the wide borders with a dragon and simurgh fighting, a feline pouncing on a deer and a prancing ram amidst oversize flowers and swaying tendrils, in gold highlighted in dark green, the reverse with former owner's notes and collection label, mounted
Painting 4 1/8 x 2 ¾in. (10.5 x 7cm.); folio 15 x 10 ¾in. (38 x 27.4cm.)
Exhibited
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1947-8.
Brought to you by
Louise Broadhurst