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A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN
SIGNED 'ALI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
Persian manuscript on buff paper, with 4ll. of elegant black nasta'liq on a ground delicately illuminated in gold with two prowling cheetahs amongst flowering blossoms, a triangular panel below with the signature al-muthnib 'Ali in a cloud reserved against a gold ground with scrolling green vine, a panel above with later gold and polychrome illumination, laid down between orange-outlined panels of nasta'liq between small polychrome rectangles, minor gold-illuminated blue borders and polychrome rules, on later wide borders with polychrome floral and avian borders and polychrome cusped cartouches, small losses
Text panel 7 3/8 x 4½in. (18.9 x 11.2cm.); folio 14 7/8 x 10¼in. (37.9 x 25.6cm.)