A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION

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Los 114 | A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION
A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION

SIGNED BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR, MUGHAL INDIA, MID 19TH CENTURY

Ink and opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the black calligraphy filled with a white scrolling floral vine, the interstices with gold trefoils, palmettes and lozenges against a blue ground, larger areas of similar decoration above and below, a panel below containing an inscription in red ink naming the scribe, set within gold rules and pasted onto later card margin, later inscription in black ink in the lower margin, the verso with blue and red pencil annotations, trade label in the upper left, some waterstaining

Text panel 8 x 5 ½in. (20.5 x 14cm.); folio 11 x 8 ½in. (28 x 21.5cm.)





Provenance

Anon sale, Christie's London, 7 April 2011, lot 293



Inscribed

The red inscription below the composition: katabahu muhammad abu zafar saraj al-din bahadur shah ghazi
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