Archive Item: Guraze taking the corpse of Siyamak: Leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama

Copied by Salik ibn Sa’id for Sultan Ali Mirza of Gilan (r.1478-1504)
Persia, Turkman style, A.H. 899/1494 A.D.

Gouache on paper with gold; miniature:

233 by 152 mm.; folio: 345 by 245 mm.

This rare folio is one of less than five unaccounted for from the original group of forty thought to have been with Demotte in paris in the 1920s.

Provenance

Sultan Ali Mirza of Gilan (r.1478-1505)
Royal libraries, Istanbul
Probably Demotte, Paris, 1920s-30s
Collection of Rafael de Mitjana (1869-1921)
Viscount S. S. Hermelin
Sold, Sotheby's, 11.vii.1972, lot 146, to Manoukian
Sold, de Ricqlès, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 7.iv.1993
Private collection, Paris, 1993-2008

Published

Sotheby’s, Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 11th July, 1972, lot 146 Franciois de Ricqlès, Art Islamique, Paris, 7th April 1993, lot 73 (colour illustration and detail on cover)

Exhibited

Exhibited in Miniature Paintings from the Indian and Islamic World, Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, 30 October – 7 November 2008

SOLD TO A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR