Lot Essay
The text here is a page of Persian quatrains and qasidas from the diwan of a poet with the pen name Khaqan.
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SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
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A CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM LEAF
SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
With an elegant nasta'liq quatrain on a ground of gold and blue floral and avian illumination surrounded by a border of nasta'liq panels with the text running horizontally, vertically and diagonally, with gold or polychrome interlinear rules, laid down between blue and gold rules on a turquoise album leaf with gold floral illumination, verso with a main panel with 8ll. of nasta'liq on a ground of floral illumination with three further calligraphic panels above and one on each side, border stripped in half, small areas of worm holing
Text Panel 9 3/8 x 5½in. (24.2 x 14cm.); Folio 14 1/8 x 9¼in. (35.6 x 23.4cm.)
SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
With an elegant nasta'liq quatrain on a ground of gold and blue floral and avian illumination surrounded by a border of nasta'liq panels with the text running horizontally, vertically and diagonally, with gold or polychrome interlinear rules, laid down between blue and gold rules on a turquoise album leaf with gold floral illumination, verso with a main panel with 8ll. of nasta'liq on a ground of floral illumination with three further calligraphic panels above and one on each side, border stripped in half, small areas of worm holing
Text Panel 9 3/8 x 5½in. (24.2 x 14cm.); Folio 14 1/8 x 9¼in. (35.6 x 23.4cm.)
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