Lot Essay
Another shikasteh exercise by the same calligrapher, dated AH 1189, is in an album in Princeton University Library (South wall 16+17, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 102Ge, f.32a.).
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SIGNED FAQIR SHAH MUHAMMAD MU'IN 'ALI, HYDERABAD, INDIA, DATED 11 SHA'BAN AH 1188 / 17 OCTOBER 1774 AD
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A CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL
SIGNED FAQIR SHAH MUHAMMAD MU'IN 'ALI, HYDERABAD, INDIA, DATED 11 SHA'BAN AH 1188 / 17 OCTOBER 1774 AD
Persian manuscript on paper, 9ll. dense black shikasteh written on the diagonal, signed and dated, within gold sprinkled green paper borders with black and red rules, the reverse plain, mounted, framed and glazed
6 ½ x 9 ¾in. (25 x 16.5cm.)
SIGNED FAQIR SHAH MUHAMMAD MU'IN 'ALI, HYDERABAD, INDIA, DATED 11 SHA'BAN AH 1188 / 17 OCTOBER 1774 AD
Persian manuscript on paper, 9ll. dense black shikasteh written on the diagonal, signed and dated, within gold sprinkled green paper borders with black and red rules, the reverse plain, mounted, framed and glazed
6 ½ x 9 ¾in. (25 x 16.5cm.)
Provenance
American art market, by 1998
Literature
Cheney Cowles, Helen Delacretaz and Barry Till, Image and Word: Indian Paintings, Drawings, and Calligraphy (1350-1830), Victoria, 1998, p.23, fig.30
Exhibited
'Image and Word: Indian Paintings, Drawings, and Calligraphy (1350-1830)', Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada, 1998
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