TWO NASTA'LIQ PANELS, SIGNED MAHMUD IBN ISHAQ SHAHABI AND MALIK DAYLAMI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY

TWO NASTA'LIQ PANELS
SIGNED MAHMUD IBN ISHAQ SHAHABI AND MALIK DAYLAMI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY
The first comprising a nasta'liq quatrain in diagonal elegant black script, on gold-speckled ground with illuminated birds and floral scrolls, bordered with blue illuminated panels within polychrome rules, in an outer cream border with gilt illumination, signed Mahmud Ibn Ishaq Shahabi; the second with three couplets in elegant nasta'liq script, two diagonal and one vertical, on cream ground illuminated with elegant saz motifs, between floral illuminated navy margins, signed Malik Daylami on lower border, both laid on plain card
First: 10 x 7 1/8in. (25.7 x 18cm.); folio 17 ¼ x 12in. (44 x 30.7cm.); second: 12 x 7 ¾in. (30.5 x 19.5cm.); folio 16 ¾ x 11 ¾in. (42.5 x 29.5cm.)

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