Lot 29
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A COURTING COUPLE
A COURTING COUPLE
A COURTING COUPLE
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A COURTING COUPLE

SHAYBANID BUKHARA, UZBEKISTAN, 16TH CENTURY

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A COURTING COUPLE
SHAYBANID BUKHARA, UZBEKISTAN, 16TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, laid down with a line of gold and blue nasta'liq above and below, within gold and polychrome rules, gold sprinkled buff margins with blue and white outer rules, the verso plain, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 5 ½ x 3 5⁄8 in. (13.8 x 9.2cm.); text panel 6 7⁄8 x 3 ¾in. (17.5 x 9.8cm.); folio 10 ½ x 7in. (26.5 x 17.6cm.)
Exhibited
The inscriptions above and below read, 'story concerning the service and resolution of travellers'

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Lot Essay

The text may be an alternative for one of the stories from the Bustan of Sa'adi which is ‘story concerning the patience and resolution of travellers’. The faces of the couple in the present lot, and in particular the decorated turban of the young man, are stylistically very similar to a painting of a loving couple signed by Zaini which was sold in these rooms, 7 April 2011, lot 152.

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