Lot Essay
The couplet translates: When that soul of the world walked out from the garden holding her skirt in her hand, you are right to say that the soul of the singing birds of the garden left their bodies.
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Calligraphic scroll
Details
Calligraphic scroll
Persia, probably 20th century
comprising a Persian couplet, the buff paper painted with a line of bold khatt-i gulzar in nasta'liq, the 'nuns' forming a line below, each letter outlined in black and filled with polychrome roses and nightingales, varnished, (negligible creasing at edges)
16¼ x 47in. (41.3 x 119.2cm.)
Persia, probably 20th century
comprising a Persian couplet, the buff paper painted with a line of bold khatt-i gulzar in nasta'liq, the 'nuns' forming a line below, each letter outlined in black and filled with polychrome roses and nightingales, varnished, (negligible creasing at edges)
16¼ x 47in. (41.3 x 119.2cm.)