SHAH ISMA'IL SAFAVI AND SIX OF HIS DESCENDANTS
SHAH ISMA'IL SAFAVI AND SIX OF HIS DESCENDANTS
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SHAH ISMA'IL SAFAVI AND SIX OF HIS DESCENDANTS

THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED SHAH QASIM, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1650-60

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SHAH ISMA'IL SAFAVI AND SIX OF HIS DESCENDANTS
THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED SHAH QASIM, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1650-60
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, Shah Isma'il sits on an octagonal jewelled throne wearing green robes, gold embroidered cloak and green and pink turban with baton and plume, his clenched fists on his knees, around him his descendants kneel on a brown carpet, within minor gold illuminated blue borders and gold and polychrome rules on wide cream borders decorated with gold illuminated floral lattice, some scuffing, later identification inscriptions beneath each figure, the reverse with a calligraphic panel in black nasta'liq, signed al-muthnib Shah Qasim in a polychrome illuminated triangular panel, the panel laid down between calligraphic and gold illuminated borders on similar but simpler wide gold illumianted margins, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 11 1/8 x 8 3/8in. (28.8 x 21.1cm.);folio 20 x 13½in. (51 x 35cm.); calligraphy 7¾ x 5 3/8in. (19.9 x 14.1cm.)
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Property of a Gentleman, sold Sotheby's, London, 26 March 1973, lot 15
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Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse
Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse

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The figures illustrated in this painting are, on the left, Shah Isma'il's sons Bahram Mirza (d.1550), Rustam Husyan Mirza of Qandahar (1569-1641, governor of Multan under Akbar), and Mirza Mukarram Khan (d. 1669). To the right of Shah Isma'il are Sultan Husayn Mirza (son of Bahram Mirza), Sultan Murad Mirza (titled 'Iltafat Khan' under Jahangir) and Rustam Mirza.

A similar portrait of Shah Isma'il I is published in E. Blochet, Musulman Painting, London, 1929, pl.CLXXVI. Another miniature in a closely related style was in the Kevorkian Collection, sold at Sotheby's, 7 December 1970, lot 124.

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