SIGNED 'ABDULLAH AL-HARAWI, TIMURID HERAT, 15TH CENTURY

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A CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL
SIGNED 'ABDULLAH AL-HARAWI, TIMURID HERAT, 15TH CENTURY
Ink and polychrome heightened with gold on gold-speckled card, 3ll. of elegant muhaqqaq on gold-outlined cloud reserved against a ground of scrolling arabesques and red hatch lines, interlinear scrolling vine with stylised lotus flower blooms outlined in gold and with highlights picked out in silver, four corner cartouches with illuminated arabesque on gold or polychrome ground, laid down within polychrome rules on wide ochre coloured mount
Text panel 4¾ x 7½in. (12 x 19.1cm.); folio 8 3/8 x 13½in. (21.1 x 34.3cm.)

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Lot Essay

The text here includes a saying of Abu Mihjan, a companion of the Prophet, about the Jews of the Hijaz.

The panel bears the name of 'Abdullah al-Harawi - a scribe known as Tabbakh - who was one of the most famous scribes of 15th century Herat. He wrote in all calligraphic styles and designed inscriptions for buildings in Herat and Mashhad. His signed pieces are written in Herat and Samarqand between AH 833/1429-30 AD and AH 867/1462-63 AD.

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