ID 1404650
Los 66 | A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN
Schätzwert
£ 60 000 – 80 000
THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED 'ABD AL-RAHIM 'ANBARIN QALAM, MUGHAL INDIA, DATED AH 1030 / 1620-21 AD; THE MARGINS MUGHAL INDIA, MID-17TH CENTURY
Persian poetry on gold-sprinkled paper, with 4ll. gold-outlined black nasta'liq in clouds reserved against a gold ground decorated with polychrome floral illumination, two further lines written at the vertical either side and a further line in a triangular panel beneath the signature and date, laid down between blue and cream gold-illuminated borders with red, black and blue rules, the buff margins finely decorated with gold-outlined polychrome floral sprays and clouds, mounted on card
Text panel 7 ½ x 3 5/8in. (19.1 x 9.3cm.); folio 15 ¼ x 9 7/8in. (38.8 x 25.4cm.)
Provenance
By repute, UK art market, in 1970s
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 6 October 2011, lot 261
Engraved
Oh, the nine skies are exemplars of your exalted status
Old times have grown young in your time
Your heart forgives not and seeks purpose only in kindness
Many lives will be sacrificed for your kind heart
The humble 'Abd al-Rahim 'Anbarin Qalam
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