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THE BORDERS POSSIBLY BY MUHAMMAD AL-KATIB AND HASAN ALI AL-KATIB, SAFAVID HERAT, CIRCA 1522
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A CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM FOLIO
THE BORDERS POSSIBLY BY MUHAMMAD AL-KATIB AND HASAN ALI AL-KATIB, SAFAVID HERAT, CIRCA 1522
Album folio on paper, with 311. of black nasta'liq within gold and polychrome rules, above and below it a poem in diagonal nasta'liq panels, laid down within gold and polychrome rules, the illuminated blue margins with gold floral and bird motifs reserved against gold sprinkled ground, the upper, middle and lower outer corners with polychrome animal and figural cusped medallions, reverse plain
Calligraphy 5 ½ x 3 ½in. (14.1cm. x 8.9cm.); folio 11 7⁄8 x 7 5⁄8 in. (29.1cm. x 19.3cm.)
THE BORDERS POSSIBLY BY MUHAMMAD AL-KATIB AND HASAN ALI AL-KATIB, SAFAVID HERAT, CIRCA 1522
Album folio on paper, with 311. of black nasta'liq within gold and polychrome rules, above and below it a poem in diagonal nasta'liq panels, laid down within gold and polychrome rules, the illuminated blue margins with gold floral and bird motifs reserved against gold sprinkled ground, the upper, middle and lower outer corners with polychrome animal and figural cusped medallions, reverse plain
Calligraphy 5 ½ x 3 ½in. (14.1cm. x 8.9cm.); folio 11 7⁄8 x 7 5⁄8 in. (29.1cm. x 19.3cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, UK, by repute by 1971
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