TWO DEPICTIONS OF CROUCHING LIONS ONE SIGNED MUHAMMAD HASHIM, SAFAVID...

TWO DEPICTIONS OF CROUCHING LIONS
ONE SIGNED MUHAMMAD HASHIM, SAFAVID IRAN, BOTH LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Ink and wash on paper, one depicting a crouching lion in a landscape, signed Muhammad Hashim, between minor marbled borders and wider gold-speckled blue margins, the other depicting a crouching lion devouring the leg of a gazelle, between minor gold illuminated peach borders on wide blue margin with gold illumination, each laid down on card, verso of both plain
First painting 2 ¾ x 5 ¼in. (7 x 13.3cm.); folio 5 ¾ x 9 7/8in. (14.5 x 25.1cm.); second painting 3 ¼ x 5 ¾in. (10.8 x 7.3cm.); folio 7 ¼ x 11in. (18.5 x 27.6cm.)

Provenance
Collection of Dikran Khan Kelekian, New York, by 1933