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A NASTA'LIQ CALLIGRAPHIC FOLIO
SIGNED MIR 'ALI AL-TABRIZI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Ink and gouache heightened with gold on paper, the central panel with four lines of horizontal nasta'liq interspersed with eight lines of diagonal nasta'liq set in white clouds on a ground of scrolling floral vine on red hatching, set in later gold and polychrome scrolling floral vine borders, on wide margins with a landscape drawing populated with birds rendered in gold, a large scale heading in gold nasta'liq above, mounted on card
Text panel 4¼ x 2¾in. (11 x 7cm.); folio 12 x 8in. (30.5 x 20.3cm.)

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