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A DECOUPÉ CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL
SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY
Decoupé coloured papers on paper with gouache and gold decoration, Persian manuscript on blue paper, 4ll. of elegant decoupé nasta'liq in yellow, red, white and green, against a densely decorated ground of vine issuing fleshy leaves and blue and red flowerheads, triangular panels of gold and blue floral illumination on orange ground above and below, laid down between polychrome rules and minor marbled and yellow borders on silver-speckled orange margins
Calligraphy 9 x 5 1/8in. (22.6 x 12.8cm.); folio 14 7/8 x 9½in. (37.9 x 24.1cm.)

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