Lot 59
  • 59

Calligraphie montée sur une page d'album, par Muhammad Hussein al-Kashmiri Zarrin Qalam (la plume en or), Inde, art moghol, première moitié du XVIIème siècle

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Description

  • par Muhammad Hussein al-Kashmiri Zarrin Qalam (la plume en or)
  • encre, gouache et or sur papier collé sur une page cartonnée
encre, gouache et or sur papier collé sur une page cartonnée, quatrain en persan, en nasta'liq, inscrit en réserve dans des nuages sur un fond or, orné de rinceaux fleuris et agrémenté de petits oiseaux, les marges garnies d'une série de bouquets fleuris

Condition

There is a fold running from the middle left to the middle right borders. There are tears to paper in the margins around the calligraphy.
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Catalogue Note

Muhammad Hussein al-Kashmiri is known as the greatest calligrapher at Akbar's atelier. Abu'l Fazl singles him out for the highest praise in the Ain-i Akbari, and records "the artist who, in the shadow of the throne of his majesty, has become a master of calligraphy, is Muhammad Husayn of Kashmir". He received the honorific title of Zarrin Qalam translates as the 'Golden Pen'. He surpassed his master mawlana 'Abd al-Azziz, his maddat and dawa'ir show everywhere a proper proportion to each other, and art critics consider him equal to Mullah Mir 'Ali (Abul Fazl ʻAllami, Ain-i Akbari, translated by H. Blochmann, Frankfurt am Main : Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 1993, p. 109). Muhammad Hussein copied several important manuscripts for Akbar, including a copy of Sa'di's Gulistan dated 1582, now in the Royal Asiatic Society, London ; Jami's Baharistan dated 1595, now in the Bodleian Library Oxford (ms. Elliot 254, f. 9a) and the Chester Beatty.