A young Mughal prince standing in a landscape, holding a sword and flywhisk Mughal, late 17th Cen...
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A young Mughal prince standing in a landscape, holding a sword and flywhisk
Mughal, late 17th Century
gouache and gold on paper, laid down on an album page with gold-decorated borders; verso, a calligraphic page, Persia, dated AH 1071/AD 1660-61, copied by Haji Muhammad al-Husaini, a quatrain in Arabic written diagonally in nasta'liq script within cloudbands on an illuminated floral ground
painting 185 x 110 mm.; calligraphic page 115 x 55 mm.; album page 382 x 260 mm.
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Provenance
Private collection, London.
The Arabic quatrain verso is in praise of Imam 'Ali. The scribe, Haji Muhammad al-Husaini, is recorded as a little-known calligrapher of the 17th Century with only four recorded calligraphic pages, one dated AH 1066/AD 1655-56. See Mehdi Bayani, ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol. iii, Tehran 1348sh, p. 709.
Mughal, late 17th Century
gouache and gold on paper, laid down on an album page with gold-decorated borders; verso, a calligraphic page, Persia, dated AH 1071/AD 1660-61, copied by Haji Muhammad al-Husaini, a quatrain in Arabic written diagonally in nasta'liq script within cloudbands on an illuminated floral ground
painting 185 x 110 mm.; calligraphic page 115 x 55 mm.; album page 382 x 260 mm.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Private collection, London.
The Arabic quatrain verso is in praise of Imam 'Ali. The scribe, Haji Muhammad al-Husaini, is recorded as a little-known calligrapher of the 17th Century with only four recorded calligraphic pages, one dated AH 1066/AD 1655-56. See Mehdi Bayani, ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol. iii, Tehran 1348sh, p. 709.
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A young Mughal prince standing in a landscape, holding a sword and flywhisk Mughal, late 17th Cen...
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