Lot Essay
The inscription is a line from a couplet meaning 'why one wants destruction with one sound'!
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Wasli
by Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar
Persia, early 19th century
Manuscript on paper with gold and polychrome illumination, the same line of text written three times in black nasta'liq, signed below in gold-edged script 'mashq Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar', in gold clouds illuminated with scrolling leafy polychrome palmette vine, mounted in two panels with black and orange margins, purple leaf (very slight smudging), framed and glazed
each panel 4¾ x 7 5/8in. (12.6 x 19.3cm.); each folio 7¾ x 12¼in. (19.7 x 31.2cm.)
by Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar
Persia, early 19th century
Manuscript on paper with gold and polychrome illumination, the same line of text written three times in black nasta'liq, signed below in gold-edged script 'mashq Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar', in gold clouds illuminated with scrolling leafy polychrome palmette vine, mounted in two panels with black and orange margins, purple leaf (very slight smudging), framed and glazed
each panel 4¾ x 7 5/8in. (12.6 x 19.3cm.); each folio 7¾ x 12¼in. (19.7 x 31.2cm.)