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A PORTRAIT OF A MUGHAL PRINCE

MUGHAL INDIA, THE PORTRAIT MID 17TH CENTURY; THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED 'ANBARIN QALAM, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A PORTRAIT OF A MUGHAL PRINCE
MUGHAL INDIA, THE PORTRAIT MID 17TH CENTURY; THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED 'ANBARIN QALAM, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, verso with a portrait of a Mughal prince holding flowers on a green background, laid down within margins decorated with a gold lattice containing a stylised floral spray, recto with a Persian quatrain in elegant black nasta'liq set in white clouds reserved against gold ground, triangular illuminated cartouches with gold and polychrome floral scrolling vine and interlocking palmettes, signed in the lower left-hand corner, set in wide margins with a gold lattice with scrolling floral vine, in good condition
Painting 6 3/8 x 3 3/8in. (16 x 8.5cm.); folio 15¼ x 10½in. (38.8 x 26.6cm.)

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Inscription: The calligraphy includes two distichs from a ghazal
of Hafiz
A very similar portrait of a Mughal prince wearing partially transparent jama over striped trousers, attributed to the artist Hunhar and dated to circa 1650-1660, is in the India Office Library (Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library, London, 1981, no. 93, p. 406). For a note on the calligrapher 'Abd al-Rahim, known as 'Anbarin Qalam see lot 56 from the Private Collection Donated to Benefit the University of Oxford Part III.

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