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A rare example of late Safavid miniature painting, notable for its landscape format and uncompromising symmetry of setting. The artist appears to be unrecorded.
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SIGNED SAYYID, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1113/1700-1 AD
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TWO LADIES SITTING BY A PAVILION
SIGNED SAYYID, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1113/1700-1 AD
Gouache heightened with gold and silver on paper, two ladies sit by a pavilion with billowing curtains before a silvered duck pond, one pouring wine, the other arranging a flower in her hair, inside a fenced enclosure, within a symmetrical landscape of trees and flowers, nasta'liq inscription at the top 'amal kamtarin sayyid/Work of the humble Sayyid, slight flaking but otherwise in very good condition
13¼ x 8¾in. (34 x 22.2cm.)
SIGNED SAYYID, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1113/1700-1 AD
Gouache heightened with gold and silver on paper, two ladies sit by a pavilion with billowing curtains before a silvered duck pond, one pouring wine, the other arranging a flower in her hair, inside a fenced enclosure, within a symmetrical landscape of trees and flowers, nasta'liq inscription at the top 'amal kamtarin sayyid/Work of the humble Sayyid, slight flaking but otherwise in very good condition
13¼ x 8¾in. (34 x 22.2cm.)
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