SIGNED 'ALI REZA ABBASI, LATE 16TH CENTURY

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A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN
SIGNED 'ALI REZA ABBASI, LATE 16TH CENTURY
Persian manuscript on gold-illuminated blue paper, with 4ll. of elegant black nasta'liq on elegantly illuminated ground, smaller single lines of nasta'liq to each side, one with the signature, panels of illumination in two triangles at the corners, laid down within gold and polychrome borders with minor panels of nasta'liq on wide gold illumianted cream borders, small areas of staining and scuffing
Folio 15½ x 13in. (39.3 x 33cm.)

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Lot Essay

'Ali Reza 'Abbasi is recorded as a caligrapher at the court of Shah 'Abbas and is one of the most famous calligraphers of the Safavid period (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Vol. II, Tehran 1346 sh., pp.456-61). Album pages signed by him were exhibited in the recent exhibition Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran (Sheila R. Canby, Shah 'Abbas. The Remaking of Iran, exhibition catalogue, London, 2009, no.6, p.44). He was responsible for the inscriptions on famous monuments including the Shrine of Imam Rida in Mashhad and the Sheikh Lutfullah Mosque in Isfahan.

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