A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION IN NASTALIQ SCRIPT, PERSIA
Persian manuscript on paper, the central panel consisting of siyah mashq in large nastaliq script in black ink on a gold-decorated ground, separate panels containing couplets in nastaLiq script above and below this, laid down on an album page with profusely and finely decorated borders in colors and gold.Composition: 24 by 12 cm. Album page: 38 by 24.5 cm. PROVENANCEThe Shakerine Collection.The central panel, in the form of practice writing (siyah mashq), is a famous poem by the celebrated 16th Century nasta'liq calligrapher Mir 'Ali Haravi. The couplets above and below (poet unidentified) are most probably excised from a 16th-17th Century manuscript.
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Persian manuscript on paper, the central panel consisting of siyah mashq in large nastaliq script in black ink on a gold-decorated ground, separate panels containing couplets in nastaLiq script above and below this, laid down on an album page with profusely and finely decorated borders in colors and gold.Composition: 24 by 12 cm. Album page: 38 by 24.5 cm. PROVENANCEThe Shakerine Collection.The central panel, in the form of practice writing (siyah mashq), is a famous poem by the celebrated 16th Century nasta'liq calligrapher Mir 'Ali Haravi. The couplets above and below (poet unidentified) are most probably excised from a 16th-17th Century manuscript.
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