Calligraphic panel

OTTOMAN PROVINCES, AH 1144/1731-2 AD

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Calligraphic panel
Ottoman provinces, AH 1144/1731-2 AD
Pen and ink and gouache heightened with gold on paper, the letters in the form of a tughra terminating in a peacock's head on a ground of floral meander, a line of naskh above and below, signed Mirza Muhammad 'Ali ibn Mirza Ghulam Rasul Kashmiri and dated 1144, slight flaking, mounted on brown card
Folio 10 x 13in. (25.4 x 33cm.)

Lot Essay

This is dedicated to Hojatalislam Ayatollah Hajji al-Sayyid Muhammad Reza Al-Tabatabai al-Najafi. The Ottoman style of illumination and nature of the patron, a Shia cleric, sugggests that this calligraphy may have been done by an Indian living in Najaf or some other Shia area of the Ottoman Empire.

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