Lot 56
Lot 56
PROPERTY FROM THE KARL AND ELIZABETH KATZ COLLECTION
Yusuf being rescued from a well by passing merchants

[Kashmir, North India, late 19th century]

Price Realised USD 1,625
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USD 1,200 - USD 1,800
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Yusuf being rescued from a well by passing merchants

[Kashmir, North India, late 19th century]

Price Realised USD 1,625
Price Realised USD 1,625
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Physical description:
235 x 133mm (9¼ x 5¼in.). Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, an illustration to Jami’s Yusuf va Zulaykha, depicting Yusuf crouching in a wall looking up towards his rescuers, their horses lined up in the foreground, within narrow gold borders and red and black rules, with wide gold speckled margins.

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