Arts of the Islamic World & India

Arts of the Islamic World & India

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 148. A calligraphic album page, possibly from the Read 'Persian' Album, Persia, 16th-17th century.

A calligraphic album page, possibly from the Read 'Persian' Album, Persia, 16th-17th century

Auction Closed

October 29, 03:22 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

ink and gold on paper, calligraphy written in naskh and nasta'liq in black ink, and thuluth in gold, within floral margins illuminated in gold

leaf: 34 by 21.8cm.

Ex-collection Adrienne Minassian, New York, 1955

Ex-collection Stuart Cary Welch (1928-2008), New York

Sotheby's London, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part One: Arts of the Islamic World, 6 April 2011, lot 44

Ebru: The Art of Marbling of Turkey, India and Iran, Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, 1987

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