Youth visiting a dervish, after Muhammad Qasim, on paper [ Zand Persia, mid-eighteenth century]
Youth visiting a dervish in a landscape scene, Persian miniature painting in the style of Muhammad Qasim, on paper [probably Zand Persia, mid-eighteenth century] single leaf, ink and gouache on paper, illustration depicting a youth holding a horn greeting a dervish in an outdoor scene, left-hand panel with text written diagonally in couplets in black nasta'liq script, set in clouds against a chequered red backdrop, green spiralling vines decorated with orange decorating the outer edges of the text-boxes, reverse with additional couplets in nasta'liq, inner edge of leaf repaired, some brown spots and slight chips to paint, 275 by 175 mm.; on modern card mount
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Youth visiting a dervish in a landscape scene, Persian miniature painting in the style of Muhammad Qasim, on paper [probably Zand Persia, mid-eighteenth century] single leaf, ink and gouache on paper, illustration depicting a youth holding a horn greeting a dervish in an outdoor scene, left-hand panel with text written diagonally in couplets in black nasta'liq script, set in clouds against a chequered red backdrop, green spiralling vines decorated with orange decorating the outer edges of the text-boxes, reverse with additional couplets in nasta'liq, inner edge of leaf repaired, some brown spots and slight chips to paint, 275 by 175 mm.; on modern card mount