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拍品專文
At least ten miniature paintings have been ascribed to Anup Chattar (Som Prakash Verma, Mughal Painters and their Work, Delhi 1994). He is thought to have started his career under Shah Jahan and perhaps worked for Dara Shikoh. Two portraits in the India Office Library can be dated to circa 1640 (Falk and Archer, Indian miniatures in the India Office Library, 1981, p.82, no.70). Another, also in the Indian Office Library is dated AH 1090 1679 AD (Falk and Archer, op. cit., p.94, no.117).
A scribe named 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Husayni is recorded as a Husayni Sayyid of Mashhad and a grandson and pupil of Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi. None of his recorded works, which are all calligraphic folios, except maybe this panel are dated. Qadi Ahmad met him in Mashhad when 'Abd al-Wahhab was 80 years old (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Vol. II, Tehran, 1346 sh., pp. 421-22 and V. Minorsky (translated), A Treatise by Qadi Ahmad son of Mir Munhsi, Calligraphers and Painters, 1959, Washington, p. 138). Two manuscripts signed by 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Husayni sold at Christie's, King Street Rooms, 6 October 2009, lot 124 and 5 October 2010, lot 218.
See the following lot for another portrait by Anup Chattar.
A scribe named 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Husayni is recorded as a Husayni Sayyid of Mashhad and a grandson and pupil of Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi. None of his recorded works, which are all calligraphic folios, except maybe this panel are dated. Qadi Ahmad met him in Mashhad when 'Abd al-Wahhab was 80 years old (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Vol. II, Tehran, 1346 sh., pp. 421-22 and V. Minorsky (translated), A Treatise by Qadi Ahmad son of Mir Munhsi, Calligraphers and Painters, 1959, Washington, p. 138). Two manuscripts signed by 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Husayni sold at Christie's, King Street Rooms, 6 October 2009, lot 124 and 5 October 2010, lot 218.
See the following lot for another portrait by Anup Chattar.