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A LADY HOLDING A SPRAY OF FLOWERS
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A LADY HOLDING A SPRAY OF FLOWERS

PROBABLY BOKHARA, CIRCA 1650

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A LADY HOLDING A SPRAY OF FLOWERS
PROBABLY BOKHARA, CIRCA 1650
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the lady wearing a green coat and a blue shawl with a Central Asian hat with a feather and holding a spray of blue flowers in a garden of gold flowering plants, mounted on an album leaf with minor illuminated margin, outer border of blue paper with decoupé cartouches and gold floral meander with perching birds, slight flaking
Folio 14¼ x 9½in. (36.7 x 23.8cm.); miniature 6¾ x 3½in. (17 x 8.5cm.)
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The curious colour palette of this miniature suggests Bokhara as its place of origin. The lady is wearing a domed cap with a feather typical of Uzbek miniatures of the period. The decoupé margins are also typical of the region in the Safavid period.
Compare a Khamseh in the Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library, inv.PNS 66, dated 1058/1648 (Suleimanova, F.: Miniature Illuminations of Nisami's Hamsah, Tashkent, 1985, figs. 173-191),
also a Khamseh made for the Emir of Bokhara 'Abd al-Aziz Khan, dated 1064-6/1653-6, sold in these rooms, 25 April 1997, lot 64.