PERSIAN MINIATURE PAINTING
QAJAR PERIOD, MID 19TH CENTURY
£1,375
Auction: 23 October 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
gouache on paper, depicting a scribe and a scholar kneeling on rugs in an interior by a window, a landscape view in the distance, framed
Dimensions
19cm wide, 26.5cm high (sight size)
Footnote
Provenance:
Collected by William Semple, an engineer with The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, in Iran circa 1910. Thence by descent to the present owner.