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LATE ZAND OR QAJAR IRAN, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY
Details
SIX DRAWINGS
LATE ZAND OR QAJAR IRAN, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY
Pen, ink and opaque pigments on paper, some heightened with gold, comprising two drawings of bears mounted as album pages, a drawing of a seated princess and old man, a princess conversing with a dervish, a dervish in a gold robe mounted as an album page, a dervish on an ox mounted as an album page, three with flyleaves
The largest folio 16 ¼ x 11 ¼in. (41.3 x 28.5cm.)
LATE ZAND OR QAJAR IRAN, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY
Pen, ink and opaque pigments on paper, some heightened with gold, comprising two drawings of bears mounted as album pages, a drawing of a seated princess and old man, a princess conversing with a dervish, a dervish in a gold robe mounted as an album page, a dervish on an ox mounted as an album page, three with flyleaves
The largest folio 16 ¼ x 11 ¼in. (41.3 x 28.5cm.)
Provenance
The two drawings of bears: H. Kevorkian Collection, nos. 219 and 386, Sotheby's London, 16 April 1984, lot 99,
Princess and Dervish with mythical animals and drawing of a seated dervish: Anon sale, Christie's London, 20 October 1994, lot 300
Princess and Dervish with mythical animals and drawing of a seated dervish: Anon sale, Christie's London, 20 October 1994, lot 300
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