LOT 270 Portrait of Synal Chaen, Persian Ambassador to Prague, by Ae...
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Portrait of Synal Chaen, Persian Ambassador to Prague, by Aegidius Sadeler II (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1568–1629 Prague), 1604, engraving, black ink on laid watermarked paper, with 2ll. of inverted Persian script and 3ll. of English script, in an oval the half-length portrait of Sinal Khan Shamlu, the Persian ambassador of Shah Abbas I to the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, wearing a heavy, multi-folded turban and brocaded overcoat with male figures in the wilderness, following the fashion of Safavid textiles of the time, with long hairy moustaches, below him the year in Roman numerals 1633 (MDCXXXIII), around the oval the honorific Latin inscription Synal Chaen Serenissimus Princeps in Persia. Magni Sophi Regis Persarum ad Augustum Caesarem Rudolphum II Legatus, translated in English on the bottom of the page, the watermark in the centre of the page consisting of a single-handled pot surmounted by a floral spray with quatrefoil and crescent, 23.5cm x 15.2cm.Small losses to corners
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