ISLAMIC ART HAMMER AUCTION 17 JUNE 2025 | Jun 17, 2025
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Lot 160
AN ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM A PERSIAN EPIC, SA'DI KULLIYAT, SAFAVID, 17TH CENTURY AN ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM A PERSIAN EPIC, SA'DI KULLIYAT, SAFAVID, 17TH CENTURY AN ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM A PERSIAN EPIC, SA'DI KULLIYAT, SAFAVID, 17TH CENTURY AN ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM A PERSIAN EPIC, SA'DI KULLIYAT, SAFAVID, 17TH CENTURY

Lot 160 AN ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM A PERSIAN EPIC, SA'DI KULLIYAT, SAFAVID, 17TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3006885

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, Each side with a painting and a text in Persian Nastaliq script in clouds reserved against a sprinkled gold ground, depicting a story from the first chapter of Kulliyat al-Sa'di (On the Conduct of Kings). Laid down on an album page, the margins are stylized with gilt blossoming lotus scrolls.
Text: 23 by 13 cm.
Page: 35.5 by 22 cm.

The text about one of the rulers of Khorasan saw Mahmud of Sebuktigin in a dream, where his entire body had decayed and turned to dust—except for his eyes, which were still moving in their sockets and looking around. All the scholars were baffled by the interpretation of this dream, except for a dervish who understood and said: 'He is still watching because his kingdom has passed to others.
Painting: the king asking a dervish for the interpretation of his dream.

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