A CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM PAGE WITH AN OTTOMAN HARBOUR SCENE
CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED MALIK AL-DAYLAMI, OTTOMAN TURKEY AND SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
A CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM PAGE WITH AN OTTOMAN HARBOUR SCENE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED MALIK AL-DAYLAMI, OTTOMAN TURKEY AND SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY Ink with gouache heightened with gold on paper, recto with brightly-coloured depiction of sailing boats at a harbour before a large walled fortress against a background of high mountains on a gold horizon, inside gold-speckled borders within wide later gold margins with depictions of birds and flowering plants, verso with an elegant nasta'liq quatrain by Abu Sa'id Abu'l Khayr on a ground of gold outlined scrolling palmettes, signed in the lower left hand corner mashq al-'abd al-faqir al - muthnib Malik al-Daylami , set in borders with rectangular cartouches containing verses in black nasta'liq in white clouds on gold ground, the wide outer margins with gold-outlined animal combat groups, birds and trees on yellow ground Painting 6 x 8 1/8in. (15 x 20.5cm.); calligraphic panel 7¼ x 4in. (19 x 10cm.); folio 17½ x 12¼in. (44.4 x 31cm.)
A CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM PAGE WITH AN OTTOMAN HARBOUR SCENE
CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED MALIK AL-DAYLAMI, OTTOMAN TURKEY AND SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
A CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM PAGE WITH AN OTTOMAN HARBOUR SCENE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED MALIK AL-DAYLAMI, OTTOMAN TURKEY AND SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY Ink with gouache heightened with gold on paper, recto with brightly-coloured depiction of sailing boats at a harbour before a large walled fortress against a background of high mountains on a gold horizon, inside gold-speckled borders within wide later gold margins with depictions of birds and flowering plants, verso with an elegant nasta'liq quatrain by Abu Sa'id Abu'l Khayr on a ground of gold outlined scrolling palmettes, signed in the lower left hand corner mashq al-'abd al-faqir al - muthnib Malik al-Daylami , set in borders with rectangular cartouches containing verses in black nasta'liq in white clouds on gold ground, the wide outer margins with gold-outlined animal combat groups, birds and trees on yellow ground Painting 6 x 8 1/8in. (15 x 20.5cm.); calligraphic panel 7¼ x 4in. (19 x 10cm.); folio 17½ x 12¼in. (44.4 x 31cm.)
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