DECCAN, INDIA, 18TH CENTURY

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TREES IN AUTUMN AND WINTER
DECCAN, INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with silver on paper, set within grey speckled margins with gold and black rules, with black nasta'liq inscription at top, the verso plain
The largest painting 10 ¼ x 6in. (25.9 x 15.3cm.); folio 11 3⁄8 x 7 1⁄8in. (28.8 x 18.2cm.)

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Lot Essay

INSCRIPTIONS:
Trees with autumnal foliage inscribed above in nasta'liq 'Autumn, shedding leaves [toward] the end of Aban (October-November); trees without foliage inscribed above in nasta'liq 'Azar (November-December), without leaves'

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