A head and shoulders portrait of a lady, with a calligraphic album page, India, Provincial Mughal, late 18th century

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

gouache and gold on paper with manuscript

gouache and gold on paper, inner pale blue borders with gold scrolling motifs, outer borders (trimmed) of floral motifs on cream paper, reverse with a page of nasta'liq calligraphy in black on gold-illuminated ground, signed 'hararahu Muhammad', borders of of scrolling and floral motifs

Provenance

Ex-collection Friedrich Sarre (1865-1945), Berlin, the great German art historian.
By descent to his daughter.

Literature

E. Kuhnel, Islamische Schriftkunst, Berlin-Leipzig, 1942, pl.71

Catalogue Note

Calligraphy on the reverse: fazl Ilahi shud
'Divine Grace came to be'.