A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN

WITH SIGNATURE OF SHAH MAHMUD, SAFAVID IRAN, MID-16TH CENTURY

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A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN
WITH SIGNATURE OF SHAH MAHMUD, SAFAVID IRAN, MID-16TH CENTURY
Ink on gold-speckled paper, the four lines of neat nasta'liq written diagonally, signed in the lower left corner, with gold and polychrome roundel, laid down on card with marbled paper borders, framed and glazed
Folio 10.1/4 x 7.1/2in. (25.8 x 19cm.)

拍品專文

Shah Mahmud Nishapuri was known as Zarin Qalam (Golden Pen). He was a royal calligrapher to Shah Tahmasp (d.1574) and was without doubt one of the greatest calligraphers of his time, renowned for his 'perfect nasta'liq'. When the Shah lost interest in the Arts, Shah Mahmud moved to Mashhad and worked there under the patronage of Ibrahim Mirza (d.1577) until he died (Norah M. Titley, Persian Miniature Painting and its Influence on the Art of Turkey and India, London 1983, pp.84,103,105, fig.81; and A.J. Arberry (ed.), The Chester Beatty Library. A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures, vol.II, no.179). His recorded works are dated between AH 923 and 982/1517 and 75 AD (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol.I, Tehran, 1345 sh, pp.295-304, vol.II, 1346, pp. 305-7; Minorsky, Calligraphers and Painters, 1959, pp. 134-7).