THE CONSTELLATION OF CEPHEUS
THE CONSTELLATION OF CEPHEUS
THE CONSTELLATION OF CEPHEUS
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THE CONSTELLATION OF CEPHEUS

PAINTING SAFAVID IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY; THE ALBUM FOLIO QAJAR IRAN, MADE FOR ABU'L-FATH MIRZA MU'AYYAD AL-DAWLA, DATED AH 1309 / 1891-92 AD

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THE CONSTELLATION OF CEPHEUS
PAINTING SAFAVID IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY; THE ALBUM FOLIO QAJAR IRAN, MADE FOR ABU'L-FATH MIRZA MU'AYYAD AL-DAWLA, DATED AH 1309 / 1891-92 AD
Opaque pigments heightened with gold cut out and laid down on paper, set within gold and black rules, pink inner border and blue margins decorated with gold stencilling, inscription in the lower centre, buff gold-sprinkled margins, mounted, framed and glazed, manuscript page on the reverse
Painting 8 1⁄8 x 5 5/8in. (20.7 x 14.3cm.); folio 16 5⁄8 × 10 3/8in. (42.4 x 26.5cm.)
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Mu'ayyad al-Dawla, hukmran-i mamlakat-i Khurasan va Sistan va mutavalli-bashi-yi Astan-i Quds, anjam paziraft fi sana-yi 1309.
The inscription in the border is missing at the top but it would appear to indicate that the album or the border was made in AH 1309⁄1891-2 AD for the Qajar prince and statesman Abu’l-Fath Mirza Mu’ayyad al-Dawla, governor of Khorasan and Sistan and custodian of the shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad.

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A closely related 17th century Safavid album page depicting the constellation Cepheus sold at Sotheby’s, London, 7 October 2009, lot 41. Our Safavid miniature was subsequently mounted on a richly illuminated Qajar album page, probably made in AH 1309⁄1891-92 AD for the Qajar prince and statesman Abu’l-Fath Mirza Mu'ayyad al-Dawla.

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