| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Catalogue of fine Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and Qajar paintings : including Mughal miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including a leaf from a manuscript of the Tuti Nama, c. 1570-80 ; a portrait of Haidar Beg Khan on a terrace, by Ratin Singh Lucknow, c. 1770 ; Company school natural history drawings ; Deccani, central Indian, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures, including two illustrations to the Bhagavata purana, popular Mughal, c. 1610 ; an illustration to a ragamala series, Mewar c. 1680 ; a portrait of a disappointed heroine, Kangra, c. 1830 ; Persian miniatures from the 15th to 19th century, including an illustration from a manuscript of the Shahnama, Shiraz c. 1560 ; a portrait of a maiden, Persia or probably Deccan, c. 1640 ; Qajar paintings, including a portrait of a pink-cheeked courtesan, late eighteenth century ; a portrait of a girl playing a lute, dated 1824 ; a three-part painting of Fath 'Ali Shah and the ambassadors, c. 1830 ; a portrait of a young lady playing a spike fiddle, c. 1830-40 ; Persian lacquer, including a fine pair of seventeenth century painted lacquer doors ; a highly decorative pair of Qajar painted lacquer doors, second half of nineteenth century ; a Qajar mirror-case signed by Fathalla Shirazi and dated 1292/1875 ; Arabic, Burmese, Ethiopic, Indian, Persian, Thai and Turkish manuscripts and calligraphy, including a finely illustrated Shahnama, Shiraz, mid-sixteenth century. |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby & Co., 1975 |
| Physical desc. |
91 pages, 27 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded; 1 loose) ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
09/12/1975 |
| Including property of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, Lady Reigate, Mr. Lester Wolfe, Mrs. I. Bowyer, S. Huck, and others. |
| Includes a loosely inserted printed list of estimated prices. |
| Also includes a loosely inserted printed list of prices and buyers' names. |
| Reference to CB manuscripts: p. 9, lot 32 (In 21); p. 45-46, lots 251-262 ('leaves from the Majma' al-Tavarikh, which was originally written in 1423 for Baysunghur at Herat, and was largely copied from the Jami al-Tavarikh of Rashid al-Din. Other pages from this manuscript are in the Chester Beatty Library...' [Per 105]); p. 82, lot 410 (Is 1446). |
| Date & place of sale |
Tuesday, 9th December 1975, London |
| Person as subject |
Wolfe, Lester -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Bowyer, I. -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Huck, S. -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Reigate -- Lady -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 21 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1446 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 105 |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Miniature painting, Mogul -- Catalogs |
| Miniature painting, Iranian -- Catalogs |
| Painting, Iranian -- Catalogs |
