AN ALBUM OF EROTIC EMBRACES
MUGHAL INDIA AND IRAN, THE PAINTINGS LATE 18TH CENTURY; THE ILLUMINATION SIGNED AHMAD AL-MUDHAHHIB AND DATED AH 1311/1893-94 AD
AN ALBUM OF EROTIC EMBRACES MUGHAL INDIA AND IRAN, THE PAINTINGS LATE 18TH CENTURY; THE ILLUMINATION SIGNED AHMAD AL-MUDHAHHIB AND DATED AH 1311/1893-94 AD Comprising 17 gouache illustrations, most heightened with gold and depicting a variety of amorous embraces, each over-painted with a blue arch decorated with gold arabesques, laid down on bright orange cards with gold and polychrome foliage, concertina-bound within plain brown morocco binding, with marbled paper doublures, pages with inscription giving the name of Mu'ayyid al-Dawla Farmanfarmayan and signed by the illuminator Folio 11 7/8 x 7 ¾in. (30.2 x 19.8cm.)
AN ALBUM OF EROTIC EMBRACES
MUGHAL INDIA AND IRAN, THE PAINTINGS LATE 18TH CENTURY; THE ILLUMINATION SIGNED AHMAD AL-MUDHAHHIB AND DATED AH 1311/1893-94 AD
AN ALBUM OF EROTIC EMBRACES MUGHAL INDIA AND IRAN, THE PAINTINGS LATE 18TH CENTURY; THE ILLUMINATION SIGNED AHMAD AL-MUDHAHHIB AND DATED AH 1311/1893-94 AD Comprising 17 gouache illustrations, most heightened with gold and depicting a variety of amorous embraces, each over-painted with a blue arch decorated with gold arabesques, laid down on bright orange cards with gold and polychrome foliage, concertina-bound within plain brown morocco binding, with marbled paper doublures, pages with inscription giving the name of Mu'ayyid al-Dawla Farmanfarmayan and signed by the illuminator Folio 11 7/8 x 7 ¾in. (30.2 x 19.8cm.)
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