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拍品专文
This is the second painting to appear at auction of birds on a rich gold ground dating from the Jalayrid period. The previous example, attributed to the artist Abd al-Hayy appeared at Sotheby's, 13 April 2000, lot 31. It featured two cranes wth two ducks sitting on the water in which the cranes stand.
The attribution to this artist is tentative and appears to be based on a painting of a duck in the Istanbul album (H 2153, fol.46v.) There is a drawing by Muhammad al-Khayyam after a design by Abd al-Hayy in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek,( Diez A fol.70) which is clearly based on this duck.
A celebrated artist active at the court of the Sultan Uways Jalayir in Iraq, he was one of those artists taken to Samarkand by Timur when he defeated the Sultan in 1382-3. Despite his fame, no work can securely be attributed to his hand.
The present painting is undoubtedly by the same hand as the one recently sold at auction, and may be part of the same composition. Both miniatures are curiously cut out of something of larger format. In the present case, this has resulted in the beak of the bird projecting into the margin. The other piece was cut out around the tail of one of the ducks and on the lower margin. Both miniatures are laid down on card with added decoupé illumination dating from the early 15th century.
They are clearly the hand of a master painter, showing a degree of lyrical realism unusual in Persian painting and showing a huge debt to Chinese art.
Islamic Art I, New York, 1981, figs 164-171.
Lentz, T.W. and Lowry, G.D.: Timur and the Princely Vision, Los Angeles, 1989, pp. 48-51.
The attribution to this artist is tentative and appears to be based on a painting of a duck in the Istanbul album (H 2153, fol.46v.) There is a drawing by Muhammad al-Khayyam after a design by Abd al-Hayy in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek,( Diez A fol.70) which is clearly based on this duck.
A celebrated artist active at the court of the Sultan Uways Jalayir in Iraq, he was one of those artists taken to Samarkand by Timur when he defeated the Sultan in 1382-3. Despite his fame, no work can securely be attributed to his hand.
The present painting is undoubtedly by the same hand as the one recently sold at auction, and may be part of the same composition. Both miniatures are curiously cut out of something of larger format. In the present case, this has resulted in the beak of the bird projecting into the margin. The other piece was cut out around the tail of one of the ducks and on the lower margin. Both miniatures are laid down on card with added decoupé illumination dating from the early 15th century.
They are clearly the hand of a master painter, showing a degree of lyrical realism unusual in Persian painting and showing a huge debt to Chinese art.
Islamic Art I, New York, 1981, figs 164-171.
Lentz, T.W. and Lowry, G.D.: Timur and the Princely Vision, Los Angeles, 1989, pp. 48-51.