AN ALBUM PAGE
PORTRAIT 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY, CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED MIR 'ALIKHAN JAWAHIR NAQQASH BASHI, DATED 8TH REIGNAL YEAR (OF AURANGZEB ?)
AN ALBUM PAGE PORTRAIT 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY, CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED MIR 'ALIKHAN JAWAHIR NAQQASH BASHI, DATED 8TH REIGNAL YEAR (OF AURANGZEB ?) Opaque pigments and gold on paper, the portrait depicting a nobleman standing, facing left, his left hand resting on his sword, on green repainted background, laid down between gold-ruled salmon borders, the margins stamped with Chinese style figures in an exotic landscape, over painted in shades of purple, orange and green, the reverse with a calligraphic panel with 6ll. of elegant black nasta'liq script in cloud bands on gold ground, four lines written diagonally, signed along the left hand side border, with probably added date of AH 1131, laid down between gold-ruled blue borders, the stamped margins with fine European-style foliage reserved against a light brown ground Portrait 7¼ x 3 7/8in. (18.3 x 9.8cm.); calligraphy 10¾ x 4 1/8in. (27.3 x 10.6cm.); page 17 1/8 x 11 1/8in. (43.6 x 28.4cm.)
AN ALBUM PAGE
PORTRAIT 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY, CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED MIR 'ALIKHAN JAWAHIR NAQQASH BASHI, DATED 8TH REIGNAL YEAR (OF AURANGZEB ?)
AN ALBUM PAGE PORTRAIT 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY, CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED MIR 'ALIKHAN JAWAHIR NAQQASH BASHI, DATED 8TH REIGNAL YEAR (OF AURANGZEB ?) Opaque pigments and gold on paper, the portrait depicting a nobleman standing, facing left, his left hand resting on his sword, on green repainted background, laid down between gold-ruled salmon borders, the margins stamped with Chinese style figures in an exotic landscape, over painted in shades of purple, orange and green, the reverse with a calligraphic panel with 6ll. of elegant black nasta'liq script in cloud bands on gold ground, four lines written diagonally, signed along the left hand side border, with probably added date of AH 1131, laid down between gold-ruled blue borders, the stamped margins with fine European-style foliage reserved against a light brown ground Portrait 7¼ x 3 7/8in. (18.3 x 9.8cm.); calligraphy 10¾ x 4 1/8in. (27.3 x 10.6cm.); page 17 1/8 x 11 1/8in. (43.6 x 28.4cm.)
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