IRAN, 17TH CENTURY

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TWO NASTA'LIQ CALLIGRAPHIC PANELS
IRAN, 17TH CENTURY
Persian manuscript on paper, one folio with 4ll. of elegant nasta'liq on gold illuminated ground, triangular panels in the upper and lower corners with smaller nasta'liq in clouds reserved against gold ground, the lower panel with the signature of Muhammad Shafi'a, laid down between polychrome rules and minor borders, one with floral illumination on navy ground, on wide gold margins decorated with polychrome floral sprays; the second folio with 5ll. of black nasta'liq surrounded by gold floral sprays in clouds reserved against gold and polychrome floral ground, the final line with signature of Muhammad Qasim in smaller nasta'liq below, laid down between polychrome rules and minor gold-speckled borders on wide blue margins with a gold medallion lattice filled with flowerheads and arabesques, both panels laid down on card, minor staining and scuffing
Largest folio 18 1/8 x 11¾in. (46 x 29.9cm.) (2)

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Lot Essay

These panels are both signed - one by Muhammad Shafi' and the other by Muhammad Qasim.

Muhammad Shafi' is possibly the Muhammad Shafi' Husayni, a scribe two of whose album pages are in the National Library in Tehran (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Vol. III, Tehran 1346 sh., pp.763-64).

Muhammad Qasim is unrecorded.

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