Lot 54
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THREE FOLIOS FROM KHUSRAW WA SHIRIN
THREE FOLIOS FROM KHUSRAW WA SHIRIN
THREE FOLIOS FROM KHUSRAW WA SHIRIN
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THE COLLECTION OF PAUL RICHARD LOEWI (1879-1939) AND HIS DAUGHTER ERICA (1918-1996)
THREE FOLIOS FROM KHUSRAW WA SHIRIN

PROBABLY SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1510-20

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THREE FOLIOS FROM KHUSRAW WA SHIRIN
PROBABLY SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1510-20
Three illustrated folios from the Khamsa of Nizami Ganjavi, opaque pigments in heightened with gold on paper, four columns of black nasta'liq above and below, set within gold and polychrome rules, the reverse with 14 or 18ll. black nasta'liq arranged in four columns, two folios with headings in blue nasta'liq against a swirling floral ground, two folios with margins cropped
Painting 5 1⁄4 x 4 1⁄4in. (13.4 x 10.9cm.); text panel 7 1⁄4 x 4 1⁄4in. (18.2 x 10.9cm.); folio 12 1⁄4 x 7 1⁄2in. (31 x 19cm.)
Provenance
Folio 1, Anon sale, Sotheby's, 9 December 1970, lot 239

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Lot Essay


The present group are a good example of the Shirazi ‘commercial Turkman’ style, for a detailed discussion see Adel Adamova & Manijeh Bayani, Persian Painting: The Arts of the Book and Portraiture, the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, London, 2015, p.161.
The paintings included in this group are:
1. Shirin visiting Farhad
2. Shirin and a maidservant
3. Khusrau kills the lion in his camp

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