Sale 5169
London
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26 April 2012
Price realised
GBP 15,000
Estimate
AN ELEGANT YOUTH SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a youth wearing elegant colourful robes stands in a landscape, his right hand clutching the branch of a nearby tree, at his feet a gold flask and cup and a tray of pomegranates, between gold and polychrome rules on buff margins with gold floral illumination, areas of staining, particularly to margins Miniature 6½ x 3 1/8in. (16.4 x 7.9cm.); folio 9¾ x 5 1/8in. (25.6 x 12.9cm.)
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