A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION
SIGNED BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR, MUGHAL INDIA, MID 19TH CENTURY
Ink and opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the black calligraphy filled with a white scrolling floral vine, the interstices with gold trefoils, palmettes and lozenges against a blue ground, larger areas of similar decoration above and below, a panel below containing an inscription in red ink naming the scribe, set within gold rules and pasted onto later card margin, later inscription in black ink in the lower margin, the verso with blue and red pencil annotations, trade label in the upper left, some waterstaining
Text panel 8 x 5 ½in. (20.5 x 14cm.); folio 11 x 8 ½in. (28 x 21.5cm.)
A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION
SIGNED BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR, MUGHAL INDIA, MID 19TH CENTURY
Ink and opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the black calligraphy filled with a white scrolling floral vine, the interstices with gold trefoils, palmettes and lozenges against a blue ground, larger areas of similar decoration above and below, a panel below containing an inscription in red ink naming the scribe, set within gold rules and pasted onto later card margin, later inscription in black ink in the lower margin, the verso with blue and red pencil annotations, trade label in the upper left, some waterstaining
Text panel 8 x 5 ½in. (20.5 x 14cm.); folio 11 x 8 ½in. (28 x 21.5cm.)
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