Lot 11
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Auction: 11 December 2024 from 10:00 GMT
gouache on paper heightened with gold, depicting male figures at court presenting food, wine, books and objects, an angel peering from above, with three lines of text above and two below arranged in four vertical columns, reverse with text, heading in cobalt-blue with delicately spiralling arabesque behind, mounted, glazed and framed
Folio: 20.3cm x 14cm
Formerly in the collection of Jafar Ghazi (d. 2007).
Christie’s, Indian and Islamic Works of Art and Textiles, 9 October 2009, lot 326.
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Arts from the Land of Timur. An Exhibition from a Scottish Private Collection, Edinburgh, 2012, Cat. no 480.