LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ink and opaque watercolour on paper, mounted on stout paper

Measurements:

9.21 in. (23.40 cm.) (height) by 6.69 in. (17.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

later inscription at left "mawlana najm(?) al-din 113(?)"

Exhibited:

Islamic Art from the Collection of the Fogg Museum, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1974 Sacred Symbols of Islam, Harvard Art Museums, 1981 Linear Graces, Harvard Art Museums, 1994

Literature:

Atil 1973, fig.26, pl.11

Provenance:

F.R. Martin (1868-1933), Europe, early 20th century (F. R. Martin was an influential and pioneering scholar-collector of the late 19th and early 20th century. Swedish by birth, he was the author of The Miniature Painters of Persia, India and Turkey, published in London in 1912).