TWO FINE CALLIGRAPHIC PANELS

ONE SIGNED MUHAMMAD IMANULLAH, DECCAN, INDIA, 17TH CENTURY

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TWO FINE CALLIGRAPHIC PANELS
ONE SIGNED MUHAMMAD IMANULLAH, DECCAN, INDIA, 17TH CENTURY
Ink on marbled paper, each with four lines of elegant black nasta'liq script written diagonally, with further lines in smaller script around, one panel with lines in clouds outlined in black and gold and smaller lines in cartouches outlined in silver and black, the other panel signed in the lower left hand side corner, each individually framed and glazed, together with two fragmentary lines from a large Qur'an, probably Timurid, Iran, 15th century, the panel with two lines of gold muhaqqaq script outlined in black, with a trimmed roundel verse marker in gold and blue, mounted, framed and glazed
Each panel 11 x 6 3/8in. (27.8 x 16.2cm.) approx. (3)

Lot Essay

Marbled paper became fashionable in Deccan at the Goldonca court during the first half of the 17th century. A very similar nasta'liq quatrain on marbled paper, signed faqir 'arab and datable to 1625-1635 is published in Stuart Cary Welch, India, Art and Culture 1300-1900, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1985, cat.214, p. 318.

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