A YOUTH WITH A MONKEY AND A NASTA’LIQ CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL THE DRAWING, SAFAVID IRAN, CIRCA 1590; THE CALLIGRAPHY SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY Recto with a tinted drawing of an elegant youth playing with a monkey, lines of bold nasta’liq above and below, some creasing and scuffing, laid down between pink borders on blue margins with gold floral illumination, verso with a panel of nasta’liq calligraphy with lines arranged on the horizontal and diagonal, small panels of illumination flanking them, between blue and yellow borders with further nasta’liq cartouches on wide pink margins with gold floral illumination Painting 6 ¼ x 3 ¼in. (15.8 x 8.4cm.); calligraphy 6 ¾ x 2 ½in. (14.5 x 6.2cm.); folio 11 3/8 x 6 7/8in. (29 x 17.6cm.)
A YOUTH WITH A MONKEY AND A NASTA’LIQ CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL THE DRAWING, SAFAVID IRAN, CIRCA 1590; THE CALLIGRAPHY SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY Recto with a tinted drawing of an elegant youth playing with a monkey, lines of bold nasta’liq above and below, some creasing and scuffing, laid down between pink borders on blue margins with gold floral illumination, verso with a panel of nasta’liq calligraphy with lines arranged on the horizontal and diagonal, small panels of illumination flanking them, between blue and yellow borders with further nasta’liq cartouches on wide pink margins with gold floral illumination Painting 6 ¼ x 3 ¼in. (15.8 x 8.4cm.); calligraphy 6 ¾ x 2 ½in. (14.5 x 6.2cm.); folio 11 3/8 x 6 7/8in. (29 x 17.6cm.)
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