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A CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM PAGE WITH TWO BIRDS
MUGHAL INDIA, 17TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the centre with an illustration of two birds flanked by a tall flower on one side and a leafy shrub on the other, set in a blue border with rectangular cartouches above and below containing verses from Jami's Yusuf wa Zulaykha in elegant black nasta'liq within further border with multiple rectangular cartouches with further verses interspersed with blocks of gold and polychrome floral illumination, laid down on wide margins with bird and animal scenes set amongst flowering trees outlined in gold, mounted
Painting 4½ x 2 7/8in. (10.8 x 7.5cm.); folio 13¼ x 8in. (33.6 x 19.8cm.)

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