Sale 5526
London, South Kensington
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10 October 2014
Price realised
GBP 1,750
Estimate
THREE CALLIGRAPHIC PANELS EACH SIGNED MUHAMMAD SADR AL-DIN, PROBABLY DELHI, INDIA, CIRCA 1800 Ink on paper, each with one or two lines of bold sepia thuluth script, signed in smaller black thuluth script, each line in cloud band on brown-painted ground, each panel with later added date of AH 1210 and AH 1220, each panel individually mounted The largest 9 ½ x 5 5/8in. (24.2 x 14.3cm.)
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The scribe signs each of these panels as Muhammad Sadr al-Din. On one of them he states that he was taught by Bahadur Shah Padshah, the Mughal emperor (1775-1862).
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