Lot Essay
'Abd al-Ghaffar is recorded in Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, 1985, vol.I, p.342.
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SIGNED 'ABD AL-GHAFFAR AL-SHIRAZI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1230/1814-15 AD
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A FINE ILLUMINATED PRAYER BOOK
SIGNED 'ABD AL-GHAFFAR AL-SHIRAZI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1230/1814-15 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 10ff. originally concertina-bound, each folio with 6ll. of elegant black naskh script, each line in clouds on gold ground, the text within gold and polychrome illuminated borders with floral decoration, laid down on cream, blue or pink card, each card finely illuminated with gold foliage, opening bifolio with polychrome highlights and decorated with floral sprays, the colophon signed and dated, mounted, glazed and framed
Text panel 2½ x 1 3/8in. (6.3 x 3.5cm.); folio 5 7/8 x 3½in. (15 x 9cm.)
SIGNED 'ABD AL-GHAFFAR AL-SHIRAZI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1230/1814-15 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 10ff. originally concertina-bound, each folio with 6ll. of elegant black naskh script, each line in clouds on gold ground, the text within gold and polychrome illuminated borders with floral decoration, laid down on cream, blue or pink card, each card finely illuminated with gold foliage, opening bifolio with polychrome highlights and decorated with floral sprays, the colophon signed and dated, mounted, glazed and framed
Text panel 2½ x 1 3/8in. (6.3 x 3.5cm.); folio 5 7/8 x 3½in. (15 x 9cm.)