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Leaf from an album
By Muhammad Husayn al-Tabrizi and Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi, Safavid Persia, 16th Century
Written in elegant black nasta'liq arranged on the horizontal and diagonal, highlighted with gold and polychrome floral and arabesque illumination, and with a small miniature painting of a servant bearing a dish, signed in two places Sultan 'Ali al-Katib and Muhammad Husayn al-Tabrizi mounted on gold sprinked card with an illuminated heading, framed and glazed
Album leaf 16 x 10in. (42 x 26.6cm.)