19th Jun, 2025 12:00
Arts of India and the Islamic Lands
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A SECTION OF THE GULISTAN BY SA'DI SHIRAZI (d. 1292)
Safavid Iran, 17th - 18th century
A SECTION OF THE GULISTAN BY SA'DI SHIRAZI (d. 1292)
Safavid Iran, 17th - 18th century
Persian manuscript on wove paper,165ff., 2 fly-leaves and 2 endpapers, with 9ll. of elegant black ink nasta'liq script to the page, the text arranged into two parallel columns as well as single text blocks, customary for Persian prose, with diagonal chalipa format text blocks on the margins acting as commentary, the opening page illuminated in gold and polychromes, with cusped arches at the top infilled with intertwined floral scrolls with buds and foliage, important words in gold and red, 19th-century pencil annotations in English on the margins defining the chapters, with two airport stamps reading Indian Air Customs Delhi Airport Palam, in a tooled brown morocco leather binding with Safavid-style arabesque medallions.
The text panel 11cm x 7cm, the folio 19cm x 12.5cm
Sold for £1,476
A SECTION OF THE GULISTAN BY SA'DI SHIRAZI (d. 1292)
Safavid Iran, 17th - 18th century
Persian manuscript on wove paper,165ff., 2 fly-leaves and 2 endpapers, with 9ll. of elegant black ink nasta'liq script to the page, the text arranged into two parallel columns as well as single text blocks, customary for Persian prose, with diagonal chalipa format text blocks on the margins acting as commentary, the opening page illuminated in gold and polychromes, with cusped arches at the top infilled with intertwined floral scrolls with buds and foliage, important words in gold and red, 19th-century pencil annotations in English on the margins defining the chapters, with two airport stamps reading Indian Air Customs Delhi Airport Palam, in a tooled brown morocco leather binding with Safavid-style arabesque medallions.
The text panel 11cm x 7cm, the folio 19cm x 12.5cm
Auction: Arts of India and the Islamic Lands, 19th Jun, 2025
Our specialist auction Arts of India and the Islamic Lands is now online for you to browse, peruse and fall in love with your next antique.
Among the highlights, this sale vaunts a remarkable selection of Rajput Schools paintings and an illustrated loose folio from a Timurid Haft Paykar series, all part of a private Canadian collection; several gem-studded Indian necklaces, treasured heirlooms of a local family; a notable group of Islamic manuscripts, including a geomantic tome attributed to the Nubian alchemist Dhul-Nun al-Misri; and several lots of Persian Qajar lacquer belonging to the heir of a British diplomatic family in office under Sir Denis Wright in Tehran between 1971 - 1973.
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