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SAFAVID STYLE, IRAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, ON OLD MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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SAFAVID STYLE, IRAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, ON OLD MANUSCRIPT LEAF
From 'Assar Tabrizi's Mihr-u Mushtari gouache heightened with gold on paper, two columns of black nasta'liq couplets above and below, reverse with two columns of nasta'liq, gold and black marginal rules, trimmed, mounted, framed and glazed, collection label on reverse of frame
Leaf 9 ¾ x 6 ¼ in. (24.8 x 15.9 cm.)
SAFAVID STYLE, IRAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, ON OLD MANUSCRIPT LEAF
From 'Assar Tabrizi's Mihr-u Mushtari gouache heightened with gold on paper, two columns of black nasta'liq couplets above and below, reverse with two columns of nasta'liq, gold and black marginal rules, trimmed, mounted, framed and glazed, collection label on reverse of frame
Leaf 9 ¾ x 6 ¼ in. (24.8 x 15.9 cm.)
Provenance
Lucy Truman Aldrich, Providence, Rhode Island.
Acquired from the estate of the above September 1955.
Acquired from the estate of the above September 1955.
Literature
R. Ellsworth et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Arts of Asia and Neighboring Cultures, New York, 1993, vol III, p. 288, no. 216.
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