AN ILLUMINATED CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL

Lot 54
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 54 | AN ILLUMINATED CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL
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£ 18 000 – 24 000
AN ILLUMINATED CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL
CALLIGRAPHY BY MIR 'ALI, SHAYBANID BUKHARA, CIRCA 1550
Poetry, ink and opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, 2ll. of fine black nasta'liq reserved against a gold pricked ground of dense floral scrolls, the field with several polychrome medallions and two painted figures, the green margin with gold scrolling arabesques, laid down on gold speckled paper, mounted on card
Text panel 3 ¼ x 6 1/8in. (8.3 x 15.5cm.); folio 5 7/8 x 10 ¾in. (14.9 x 27.4cm.)




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Private collection, USA, by 1985
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