IRAQ, CIRCA 1370-80

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TWO MINIATURES OF ANGELS
Iraq, circa 1370-80
From a copy of Qazvini's Ajai'b al-Makhluqat, gouache heightened with gold on paper, each leaf with a single angel wearing red and gold costume and white turbans with yellow wings, one bearing a staff, the other depicting the archangel Israfil on blue ground blowing a trumpet, some repainting and staining, mounted on card with coloured margins.
Each miniatuare 5 x 5in. (12.5 x 12.5cm) (2)

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Lot Essay

The prototype manuscript of this work in this style is in the Freer Gallery, Washington (Ettinghausen, R.: Arab Painting, New York, 1977, pp.178-9 and cover illustration). This illustration shows an almost identical depiction of the archangel Israfil. Another very similar angel is in another copy of the same work in the Library of Academic Sciences, St. Petersburg (Pope, A.U.: A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford, 1938, pl.854a and b). Further copies of this period are in the Chester Beatty Library, the Nationalbibliotheck, Vienna, and the New York Public Library.

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