Culture: Islamic, PersianNote: Inscription: In the king's cup your moon-like face/ Gives to the sun of victory a new ascent. All that Iskandar desired and the world did not give him/ Is one sip of the pure wine of your life-enhancing cup
Culture: Islamic, PersianNote: Inscription: In the king's cup your moon-like face/ Gives to the sun of victory a new ascent. All that Iskandar desired and the world did not give him/ Is one sip of the pure wine of your life-enhancing cup
34 folios with a double-page frontispiece; illuminated headings; standard page: 2 columns, 22 lines of text; nasta'liqCulture: Islamic, TurkishMaterials/Techniques: ink, opaque watercolor, gold, paper
This miniature is one of a series dating from a late sixteenth-century Mughal manuscript entitled Akhbar-i Barmakiyan, a work believed to have been written in the 10th/11th centuries A.D. and translated from Arabic into Persian by the fourteenth-century translator Ziya ud-Din Barani. The work concerns the history of the Barmakid dynasty, and chronicles "the generosity and clerical efficacy" of a family that rose to considerable power during the early years of the Abbasid Caliphate. (from Sotheby's catalog entry, 28 April 2004, Lot 55)16 illustrated leaves from this manuscript were sold by Sotheby's in London, 1st July 1969, lots 83-98 (including this miniature). Two others were in the Warren Hastings Album (subsequently Phillipps MS.14170) sold 26th November, 1968 lots 376 and 377. Two illustrated leaves were sold by Sotheby's in New York 15-16 April 1985, lot 445, and 21-22 March 1990, lot 8, the latter formerly in the collection of Ed. Binney, 3rd. Leaves from this manuscript are found in the collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan as published in Welch and Welch, 1982 and Canby 1998. (from Sotheby's catalog entry, 28 April 2004, Lot 55)Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, gold, ink, paperNote: Provenance: A number of illustrated leaves from this manuscript are thought to have been brought to Britain by John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792).
Fragment of a larger drawing. Published in Sotheby's catalog, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part One: Arts of the Islamic World, Lot 95, April 6, 2011.Culture: Islamic, MughalMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper
Fragment of a larger drawing. Published in Sotheby's catalog, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part One: Arts of the Islamic World, Lot 95, April 6, 2011.Culture: Islamic, MughalMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper
Fragment of a larger drawing. Published in Sotheby's catalog, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part One: Arts of the Islamic World, Lot 95, April 6, 2011.Culture: Islamic, MughalMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper
From the series: Ikhas Khan, Prime Minister at the court of Muhammad Adil Shah; a guru with begging bowl wearing a cloak or marbled paper; a seated asceticCulture: Mughal, Islamic