Calligraphic quatrain signed Mir' Ali, in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on paper [Safavid Persia, first half of sixteenth century]

Calligraphic quatrain signed Mir' Ali, in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on paper [Safavid Persia, first half of sixteenth century]

single leaf, single column, four lines diagonally written nasta'liq with interlinear colouring of decorated gold designs, triangular panels at the top with polychrome decoration and bottom with the calligrapher's signature, laid on a gold-speckled album page and framed within multiple borders of turquoise and gilt designs, total 315 by 210 mm. (panel 150 by 80 mm.); in modern card mount, framed and glazed, old printed auction label (probably English and 1980s) pasted to reverse

A fine and early Safavid calligraphic panel by the master scribe Mir' Ali al-Harawi, himself a student of the Timurid masters, Zayn al-din Mahmoud and Sultan al-Mashhadi. Other examples of Mir' Ali's works date to 1508-1541 (Mehdi Bayani, Painters and Calligraphers, 1959, pp. 125-131).

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