A GROUP OF LADIES
MUGHAL INDIA, SIGNED SANKAR, CALLIGRAPHY BY MUHAMMAD HUSAYN AL-KATIB [ZARRIN QALAM], CIRCA 1600
A GROUP OF LADIES MUGHAL INDIA, SIGNED SANKAR, CALLIGRAPHY BY MUHAMMAD HUSAYN AL-KATIB [ZARRIN QALAM], CIRCA 1600 Brush drawing and gouache heightened with gold on paper, one side divided into three principal sections divided by gold illuminated borders, one an illustration of three ladies after a European original, two carrying books and one a large bowl, signed in the bottom left corner, amal Sangar 'the work of Sangar', and two calligraphic panels, each with quatrains in flowing nasta'liq and signed on the last line by Muhammad Husayn al-Katib [Zarrin Qalam], laid down with red and gold margins with blue rule on a blue page densly decorated with gold flowers, verso with a deep brown panel with some gold illumination, four couplets of flowing nasta'liq and three horizonal calligraphic panels, that on the left also signed Muhammad Husayn, flanked by pink borders with gold flowers and laid down within gold and blue margins on a page of dense gold floral illumination, minor repair Miniature 4¾ x 2¾in. (12 x 7cm.); Folio 14½ x 9 3/8in. (36.8 x 23.8cm.)
A GROUP OF LADIES
MUGHAL INDIA, SIGNED SANKAR, CALLIGRAPHY BY MUHAMMAD HUSAYN AL-KATIB [ZARRIN QALAM], CIRCA 1600
A GROUP OF LADIES MUGHAL INDIA, SIGNED SANKAR, CALLIGRAPHY BY MUHAMMAD HUSAYN AL-KATIB [ZARRIN QALAM], CIRCA 1600 Brush drawing and gouache heightened with gold on paper, one side divided into three principal sections divided by gold illuminated borders, one an illustration of three ladies after a European original, two carrying books and one a large bowl, signed in the bottom left corner, amal Sangar 'the work of Sangar', and two calligraphic panels, each with quatrains in flowing nasta'liq and signed on the last line by Muhammad Husayn al-Katib [Zarrin Qalam], laid down with red and gold margins with blue rule on a blue page densly decorated with gold flowers, verso with a deep brown panel with some gold illumination, four couplets of flowing nasta'liq and three horizonal calligraphic panels, that on the left also signed Muhammad Husayn, flanked by pink borders with gold flowers and laid down within gold and blue margins on a page of dense gold floral illumination, minor repair Miniature 4¾ x 2¾in. (12 x 7cm.); Folio 14½ x 9 3/8in. (36.8 x 23.8cm.)
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