A DOUBLE-SIDED ALBUM PAGE WITH A LATER ILLUSTRATION OF PROPHET HAZRAT SULEYMAN ENTHRONED THE BORDERS SAFAVID IRAN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY, OR MUGHAL INDIA, FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY; THE PAINTING LATER The borders of blue ground, with decoupé gold-outlined floral meander with birds perching on leafy tendrils, verso mounted with a later archaistic illustration depicting the Prophet Suleyman seated in a golden domed pavilion conversing with a follower, a winged angel behind him, surrounded by birds, animals and demons, a text panel below with an inscription in red nasta'liq, the numerals ' 28 ' in the upper left corner of the borders, recto with the same illumination in the borders drawn out in gold, with 15ll. of black nasta'liq with important words picked out in red, a catchword in the lower border, the borders with some worm holing, mounted, an old collection label on the reverse of the mount Painting 6 ¼ x 3in. (15.9 x 7.8cm.); folio 10 3/8 x 6 ½in. (26.5 x 16.5cm.) Provenance Hagop Kevorkian Collection, New York
A DOUBLE-SIDED ALBUM PAGE WITH A LATER ILLUSTRATION OF PROPHET HAZRAT SULEYMAN ENTHRONED THE BORDERS SAFAVID IRAN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY, OR MUGHAL INDIA, FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY; THE PAINTING LATER The borders of blue ground, with decoupé gold-outlined floral meander with birds perching on leafy tendrils, verso mounted with a later archaistic illustration depicting the Prophet Suleyman seated in a golden domed pavilion conversing with a follower, a winged angel behind him, surrounded by birds, animals and demons, a text panel below with an inscription in red nasta'liq, the numerals ' 28 ' in the upper left corner of the borders, recto with the same illumination in the borders drawn out in gold, with 15ll. of black nasta'liq with important words picked out in red, a catchword in the lower border, the borders with some worm holing, mounted, an old collection label on the reverse of the mount Painting 6 ¼ x 3in. (15.9 x 7.8cm.); folio 10 3/8 x 6 ½in. (26.5 x 16.5cm.) Provenance Hagop Kevorkian Collection, New York
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