A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION

SIGNED MIR 'ATA MUHAMMAD QAWSANJI QANDAHARI, AFGHANISTAN, DATED AH 1321/1903-04 AD

Details

A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION
SIGNED MIR 'ATA MUHAMMAD QAWSANJI QANDAHARI, AFGHANISTAN, DATED AH 1321/1903-04 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, black ink on blue card, the text in thuluth script within a rectangular panel with polychrome floral margins, signed and dated along the bottom edge, mounted, glazed and framed
12 x 17¾in. (30.4 x 45.3cm.)

Lot Essay

The text is from Qur'an LXI (sura al-saff), v.13 (part). Mir 'Ata Muhammad is recorded as an important Afghan scribe around 1900 (Aziz al-Din Vakili, Hunar-i Khatt dar Afghanistan dar du qarn-i Akhir, Kabul, 1963, pp.40-41).

More from Arts & Textiles of the Islamic & Indian Worlds

View All