Lot Essay
The signature has been mostly erased; it seems to have read raqam Katani......Khusmawis. It does not equate with the signatures of any known artists of the period.
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Portrait of a kneeling man
Safavid Persia, mid-seventeeth century
black ink on pinkish paper, a man kneeling in a striped fur-trimmed coat and turban stretches out his right hand delicately holding a fruit, his other arm hidden with the coat's long sleeve, unrelated Persian couplets from a love-story and gold and polychrome illumination mounted around the edge, gold margins between black rules, (very slight staining), mounted on red card
miniature 5½ x 3¼in. (14 x 8.1cm.)
folio 10¾ x 7in. (27.3 x 17.8cm.)
Safavid Persia, mid-seventeeth century
black ink on pinkish paper, a man kneeling in a striped fur-trimmed coat and turban stretches out his right hand delicately holding a fruit, his other arm hidden with the coat's long sleeve, unrelated Persian couplets from a love-story and gold and polychrome illumination mounted around the edge, gold margins between black rules, (very slight staining), mounted on red card
miniature 5½ x 3¼in. (14 x 8.1cm.)
folio 10¾ x 7in. (27.3 x 17.8cm.)