opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, in buff borders between gold and polychrome rules, the illuminated margins with lions and bords in gold foliage, the reverse with 6ll. strong black nasta'liq on blue paper reserved against gold illumination, signed below, in illuminated salmon-pink and indigo borders, the buff borders illuminated as on recto, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 9¹⁄₄ x 6¹⁄₂ in. (23.5 x 16.5 cm.); folio 15¹⁄₂ x 9¹⁄₄ in. (39.4 x 23.5 cm.)

Kouchakji Frères, Paris or New York, May 1924
Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., New York, by 1948
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, New York
By descent from the above to the late owner, 1992

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Like the painting in the previous lot, the composition of this scene finds a close parallel in the Boston Hadiqat al-Haqiqi, including the presence of an old man leaning on his staff and a man by the stream smoking a hookah. A further example of a composite camel in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (25.83.6).

Both this painting and the previous lot are stamped with an old collect's name written in cyrillic, possibly Mamed Kerimov. This is in line with the likely origins of this painting in Central Asia. Another folio with the same stamp, which possibly comes from the same album, is in the National Museum of Asian Art, Washington D.C. (acc.no.F1907.2), having been purchased in Egypt in 1907.