拍品专文
For similar portraits see, 26 April 1994, lot 98 sold in these Rooms, and Sotheby's Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, London 27 April 1994, lots 95-98
细节
Portraits of three dancers and a musician
Qajar Persia, early 19th century
gouache on paper, the three dancing girls wearing brightly coloured full skirts, fitted tops and patterned head-scarves, one holding her head-scarf over her head, another sitting against a large bolster, the male musician kneeling on a carpet against a similar bolster, wearing stripy hat and coat and playing a stringed instrument, (some spotting, occasional small areas of flaking)
largest 9 x 7in. (22.6 x 17.7cm.) (4)
Qajar Persia, early 19th century
gouache on paper, the three dancing girls wearing brightly coloured full skirts, fitted tops and patterned head-scarves, one holding her head-scarf over her head, another sitting against a large bolster, the male musician kneeling on a carpet against a similar bolster, wearing stripy hat and coat and playing a stringed instrument, (some spotting, occasional small areas of flaking)
largest 9 x 7in. (22.6 x 17.7cm.) (4)