拍品 257
257
A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN
PRIVATE COLLECTION OF PERSIAN AND INDIAN ALBUM PAGES
A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN

SIGNED 'ALI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH/17TH CENTURY

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A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN
SIGNED 'ALI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
Persian manuscript on buff paper, with 4ll. of elegant black nasta'liq on a ground delicately illuminated in gold with two prowling cheetahs amongst flowering blossoms, a triangular panel below with the signature al-muthnib 'Ali in a cloud reserved against a gold ground with scrolling green vine, a panel above with later gold and polychrome illumination, laid down between orange-outlined panels of nasta'liq between small polychrome rectangles, minor gold-illuminated blue borders and polychrome rules, on later wide borders with polychrome floral and avian borders and polychrome cusped cartouches, small losses
Text panel 7 3/8 x 4½in. (18.9 x 11.2cm.); folio 14 7/8 x 10¼in. (37.9 x 25.6cm.)

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This calligraphic panel is from the same album as a miniature by Mu'in Musawwir, that was offered in these Rooms, 10 October 2000, lot 92. Both were mounted in the same gold and polychrome floral margins decorated with birds and trees.