A MOUNTED DERVISH ATTRIBUTED TO MUHAMMAD 'ALI, SAFAVID IRAN, CIRCA...
A MOUNTED DERVISH
ATTRIBUTED TO MUHAMMAD 'ALI, SAFAVID IRAN, CIRCA 1650
Ink heightened with gold on paper, set within gold and polychrome rules and a narrow yellow gold-illuminated border, decorated with Persian verses, gold and polychrome outer rules, the outer margins decorated with gold floral pattern, mounted, cardboard backing with catalogue stickers in French
Painting 6 5⁄8 x 3 7/8in. (16.6 x 9.6cm.); folio 13 5⁄8 x 8¾ in. (34.8 x 22.3cm.)
Provenance
Octave Homberg (1876-1941), Paris
Hôtel Drouot, Objets d'Art de Curiosité et d'Ameublement, Paris, 15-16 March 1933, lot 45, p.12
Agop (1871-1951) and Merguedditch (1881-1927) Indjoudjian, Paris, by 15 March, 1933
Literature
Objets d'Art de Curiosité et d'Ameublement, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15-16 March 1933
A MOUNTED DERVISH
ATTRIBUTED TO MUHAMMAD 'ALI, SAFAVID IRAN, CIRCA 1650
Ink heightened with gold on paper, set within gold and polychrome rules and a narrow yellow gold-illuminated border, decorated with Persian verses, gold and polychrome outer rules, the outer margins decorated with gold floral pattern, mounted, cardboard backing with catalogue stickers in French
Painting 6 5⁄8 x 3 7/8in. (16.6 x 9.6cm.); folio 13 5⁄8 x 8¾ in. (34.8 x 22.3cm.)
Provenance
Octave Homberg (1876-1941), Paris
Hôtel Drouot, Objets d'Art de Curiosité et d'Ameublement, Paris, 15-16 March 1933, lot 45, p.12
Agop (1871-1951) and Merguedditch (1881-1927) Indjoudjian, Paris, by 15 March, 1933
Literature
Objets d'Art de Curiosité et d'Ameublement, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15-16 March 1933
