A SEATED YOUTH WITH A WINE CUP, PERSIA, QAJAR, SAFAVID STYLE, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Property from an Important European Collection

A SEATED YOUTH WITH A WINE CUP, PERSIA, QAJAR, SAFAVID STYLE, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

ink and opaque pigments heightened with gold and red on paper, laid down on card with blue borders decorated with gold animal and floral motifs

painting: 15.2 by 8.9cm.
leaf: 32.1 by 19.7cm.

Condition Report:
The painting with minor flaking and minor stains, minor losses to the borders, as viewed.

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Provenance:
Ex-collection Lucy Truman Aldrich (1869-1955), Providence, Rhode Island.

Acquired from the estate of the above, September 1955.

Ex-collection Peggy and David Rockefeller, sold at Christie’s New York, 10 May 2018, lot 1007.