SHAYBANID BUKHARA, THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURY

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A SUFI ENTRANCED BY A MUSICIAN CASTS OFF HIS CLOAK
SHAYBANID BUKHARA, THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within gold and polychrome rules, the margins plain, verso with 8ll. of black nasta'liq with alternate lines set diagonally, within gold rules, the broad margins gold-speckled, some rubbing and loss to pigment
Painting 19.9 x 11.3cm. (7 7/8 x 4 ½in.); Folio 22.5 x 13.9cm. (8 7/8 x 5 ½in.)

Provenance

Acquired London trade, 1970s,
Thence by descent

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Lot Essay

The Bukhara style may be seen as a late flourishing of the Herati style, following the conquest of the city by the Shaybanids. An illustration from Jami's Yusuf wa Zulaykha in the India Office Library also displays a high golden hillside and a similar careful treatment of architectural detail, with a particular eye for the polychrome tilework for which Bukhara itself was well known (B. W. Robinson, Persian Paintings in the India Office Library, London, 1976, p.173, no.883). This painting relates to one from the Nasli M. Heeramaneck collection, now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.73.5.444).

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