MUGHAL INDIA, SIGNED SANKAR, CALLIGRAPHY BY MUHAMMAD HUSAYN AL-KATIB [ZARRIN QALAM], CIRCA 1600

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MUGHAL INDIA, SIGNED SANKAR, CALLIGRAPHY BY MUHAMMAD HUSAYN AL-KATIB [ZARRIN QALAM], CIRCA 1600
Brush drawing and gouache heightened with gold on paper, one side divided into three principal sections divided by gold illuminated borders, one an illustration of three ladies after a European original, two carrying books and one a large bowl, signed in the bottom left corner, amal Sangar 'the work of Sangar', and two calligraphic panels, each with quatrains in flowing nasta'liq and signed on the last line by Muhammad Husayn al-Katib [Zarrin Qalam], laid down with red and gold margins with blue rule on a blue page densly decorated with gold flowers, verso with a deep brown panel with some gold illumination, four couplets of flowing nasta'liq and three horizonal calligraphic panels, that on the left also signed Muhammad Husayn, flanked by pink borders with gold flowers and laid down within gold and blue margins on a page of dense gold floral illumination, minor repair
Miniature 4¾ x 2¾in. (12 x 7cm.); Folio 14½ x 9 3/8in. (36.8 x 23.8cm.)

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拍品專文

A Shankar Gujarati is referred to as having contributed to many major Imperial Akbar-period manuscripts including the Darab-nama (circa 1580), in the British Library (Or. 4615), a Timur-nama (circa 1584) in the Khuda Baksh Public Library, Bankipore, where he is reported to have worked with Basawan, and a Babur-nama (circa 1591), in the British Library (Or.3714) (Milo Cleveland Beach, The Imperial Image: Paintings for the Mughal Court, Washington D.C., 1981, pp. 215-222).

A Shankar is recorded as having worked with La'l, Mukund and Miskin on pages of the Victoria and Albert Akbarnama (circa. 1590-95), published in Susan Stronge, Painting for the Mughal Emperor: The Art of the Book 1560-1660, London, 2002, pl. 32, p. 49 and Amina Okada, Imperial Mughal Painters, Paris, 1992, Nos. 14 and 139, p. 19 and 129.

By the late 16th century, it becomes clear that Shankar had begun to work on his own. One folio signed by him, from the Iyar-i Danish (circa. 1595), survives in the Chester Beatty Library (Linda York Leach, Mughal and other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, London, 1995, No. 1.140, Painting No. 102, p. 89). Two folios from another Akbarnama (circa. 1603-5) where he also appears to have worked single-handedly are also found in the Chester Beatty Library (Leach, op. cit., No. 2.96 and 2.98, p. 246 and 248).

Three additional miniatures, signed Sankar, sold in the Sevadjian Collection II, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 20 March 1961, lots 89-91.