Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, gold, paperNote: Inscription: Nesser ud Deen SHAH OF PERSIANote: Inscription: raqam-e kamtarin banah-ye darga[h] sayyid mumammad al-husayni al-ima[mi] fi sanah 1265 min al-hijra Drawn by the smallest servant at [Divine] court, Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni al-Imami in the year 1265 of the hijra
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, gold, paperNote: Inscription: Nesser ud Deen SHAH OF PERSIANote: Inscription: raqam-e kamtarin banah-ye darga[h] sayyid mumammad al-husayni al-ima[mi] fi sanah 1265 min al-hijra Drawn by the smallest servant at [Divine] court, Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni al-Imami in the year 1265 of the hijra
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, gold, paperNote: Inscription: Nesser ud Deen SHAH OF PERSIANote: Inscription: raqam-e kamtarin banah-ye darga[h] sayyid mumammad al-husayni al-ima[mi] fi sanah 1265 min al-hijra Drawn by the smallest servant at [Divine] court, Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni al-Imami in the year 1265 of the hijra
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, gold, paperNote: Inscription: Nesser ud Deen SHAH OF PERSIANote: Inscription: raqam-e kamtarin banah-ye darga[h] sayyid mumammad al-husayni al-ima[mi] fi sanah 1265 min al-hijra Drawn by the smallest servant at [Divine] court, Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni al-Imami in the year 1265 of the hijra
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, gold, paperNote: Inscription: Nesser ud Deen SHAH OF PERSIANote: Inscription: raqam-e kamtarin banah-ye darga[h] sayyid mumammad al-husayni al-ima[mi] fi sanah 1265 min al-hijra Drawn by the smallest servant at [Divine] court, Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni al-Imami in the year 1265 of the hijra
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, gold, paperNote: Inscription: Nesser ud Deen SHAH OF PERSIANote: Inscription: raqam-e kamtarin banah-ye darga[h] sayyid mumammad al-husayni al-ima[mi] fi sanah 1265 min al-hijra Drawn by the smallest servant at [Divine] court, Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni al-Imami in the year 1265 of the hijra
Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, gold, paperNote: Inscription: Nesser ud Deen SHAH OF PERSIANote: Inscription: raqam-e kamtarin banah-ye darga[h] sayyid mumammad al-husayni al-ima[mi] fi sanah 1265 min al-hijra Drawn by the smallest servant at [Divine] court, Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni al-Imami in the year 1265 of the hijra
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).
Note: The attribution to Basawan has been made by Welch (1976), who points out the interest taken by this artist in eccentricities, and the characteristic treatment of the tree in the background.Culture: Mughal, IslamicMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper
Note: The attribution to Basawan has been made by Welch (1976), who points out the interest taken by this artist in eccentricities, and the characteristic treatment of the tree in the background.Culture: Mughal, IslamicMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper
Note: The attribution to Basawan has been made by Welch (1976), who points out the interest taken by this artist in eccentricities, and the characteristic treatment of the tree in the background.Culture: Mughal, IslamicMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper
Note: The attribution to Basawan has been made by Welch (1976), who points out the interest taken by this artist in eccentricities, and the characteristic treatment of the tree in the background.Culture: Mughal, IslamicMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper