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Calligraphy from a Private London Collection
Lot 14R

A calligraphic album page copied for Abu'l Hasan Mirza, perhaps a grandson of Fath 'Ali Shah
Persia, 19th Century

23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A calligraphic album page copied for Abu'l Hasan Mirza, perhaps a grandson of Fath 'Ali Shah
Persia, 19th Century

Persian manuscript on paper, two couplets written diagonally in nasta'liq script in black ink, laid down on a 19th Century album page with gold-decorated coloured inner borders, one with panels of small nasta'liq script, rectangular panel above text containing a naturalistic depiction of a bird amidst flowers and foliage, wide outer borders with stylised floral motifs in gold on a light pink ground
text panel 145 x 70 mm.; album page 455 x 310 mm.

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, London.

The quatrain in the centre is attributed to Ibn Sina (Avicenna) by Shaykh Baha'i in his Kashkul (but is otherwise unidentified). In the inner borders are the opening couplets from Sa'di's Bustan.

Abu'l-Hasan Mirza (d. 1334/1915-16) is likely to be a son of Muhammad Taqi Hisam al-Saltanah and a grandson of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar.

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