A PERI
A PERI

OTTOMAN TURKEY, LATE 16TH CENTURY

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A PERI
OTTOMAN TURKEY, LATE 16TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a peri in gold-embroidered light blue tunic sits crossed-legged with one knee raised and slightly arched back, its large curved wings heightened with gold, a figure seated before a golden platter of fruit, with inscription above, set within gold rules on gold scrolling vegetal margins, recto with 10ll. elegant nasta'liq within gold rules on scrolling gold vegetal margins
Miniature 4 7/8 x 2¾in. (12.5 x 7cm.); folio 7¾ x 5in. (19.7 x 12.8cm)

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Lot Essay

The inscription above the peri reads, parizad, 'Born of the Fairies'.

A series of drawings of peri such as this were executed in the mid 16th century. They are often depicted wearing a leafy hat, as here. A very fine example of the genre is contained in an album full of other depictions of peri in the Topkapi Saray Library (H2162.f.8r., The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, exhibition catalogue, Sydney, 1990, no.124, p.127 and New York, 1987, nos.47-48b, pp.102-03). Another example was offered in thesse Rooms, 29 October 2003, lot 156.

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