A LACQUERED PANEL WITH ROSE AND NIGHTINGALE (GUL-O BULBUL) AND CALLIGRAPHY

SIGNED MUHAMMAD AFSHAR SHIRAZI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1314/1896-97 AD

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A LACQUERED PANEL WITH ROSE AND NIGHTINGALE (GUL-O BULBUL) AND CALLIGRAPHY
SIGNED MUHAMMAD AFSHAR SHIRAZI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1314/1896-97 AD
Lacquer over gouache and gold paint on cloth, a large ogival gold panel containing monochrome gul-o bulbul designs with small blue cusped calligraphic panels, all on blue ground within gold rules, signed below Muhammad Ja'far Shirazi, dated 14, slight wear, mounted on card, framed and glazed
22½ x 13in. (57 x 33.5cm.)

Provenance

Sotheby's 26 April 1997

Literature

Falk, 1985, no.180, p.192

Exhibited

Geneva, 1985

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Lot Essay

This is identified as the image of the four cupolas of the tomb of the Eighth Imam in Mashhad.

The Persian verses are invocations to 'Ali and the Eighth Imam. Another inscription indicates that it was made during the reign of Muzaffar al-Din Shah in 1314 (1896-7 AD).

It is signed as 'The work of Muhammad Ja'far Shirazi'.

M.A. Karimzadeh Tabrizi refers to this piece in The Lives and Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol. 2, London, 1990, p. 680.

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