A COLLECTION OF TEN CALLIGRAPHIC PANELS

INCLUDING TWO PANELS SIGNED MIR 'IMAD AND HIS DAUGHTER GOHAR SHAD, MOSTLY IRAN, 16TH-20TH CENTURY

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A COLLECTION OF TEN CALLIGRAPHIC PANELS
INCLUDING TWO PANELS SIGNED MIR 'IMAD AND HIS DAUGHTER GOHAR SHAD, MOSTLY IRAN, 16TH-20TH CENTURY
Comprising a calligraphic exercise in shikasteh script signed 'Abd al-Majid (?) Shaykh and dated AH 1175 and 1179, a bifolio with nasta'liq panels signed 'Imad al-Hassani and Gohar Shad (Mir Imad's daughter), a bifolio of nasta'liq panels with signature of Riza 'Abbasi, dated AH 1015 and Mu'izz al-Din al-Husayni, a panel of 5ll. of black nasta'liq script from the Hagop Kevorkian collection, a mounted quatrain signed 'Ibrin Qalam, a nasta'liq quatrain signed Muhammad 'Abd al-'Aziz and dated AH (1)321, in magenta and black ink, a calligraphic exercise dated AH 1321, another signed 'Abd al-Wahhab and dated AH 1294, a panel of 4ll. of nasta'liq script within gold frame and silver-speckled borders, and another with orange borders
Panel 11½ x 7¼in. (29.1 x 18cm.) illustrated (10)

Lot Essay

A fine nasta'liq quatrain mounted as an album page, signed 'Abd al-Rahim 'Anbarin Qalam and dated AH 1030-1620-1 AD was sold in Christie's, London, 6 October 2011, lot 261.
Gohar Shad, the daughter of Mir 'Imad is recorded in M. Bahyani, op.cit., p.594, 81.

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