VERSO WITH A PORTRAIT OF SAFDAR KHAN, RECTO WITH A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN THE PAINTING ATTRIBUTED TO BICHITR, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1635-40; THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED BY MIR 'ALI, HERAT, AFGHANISTAN, DATED AH 943/1536-37 AD Opaque pigments heighted with gold on paper, recto a well observed portrait on dark green ground, the margins with figures of courtiers and a sage surrounded by gold floral sprays, blue paper verso with four very strong diagonal lines of nasta'liq from a ghazal of Hilali Jagata'i on bold scrolling golden floral design, overpainted with fine floral illumination on gold ground, the title upper right and between the couplets, dated lower left, the signature in a large panel below Mir 'Ali al-Sultani al-Katib , illuminated margins, on buff leaf with elegant floral sprays, glazed each side and framed Painting 7 1/8 x 4 ¼in. (18 x 10.8cm.); calligraphy 5 7/8 x 2 7/8 in. (14.9 x 7.3cm.); folio 15 x 10 ¾in. (38.1 x 27cm.)
VERSO WITH A PORTRAIT OF SAFDAR KHAN, RECTO WITH A NASTA'LIQ QUATRAIN THE PAINTING ATTRIBUTED TO BICHITR, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1635-40; THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED BY MIR 'ALI, HERAT, AFGHANISTAN, DATED AH 943/1536-37 AD Opaque pigments heighted with gold on paper, recto a well observed portrait on dark green ground, the margins with figures of courtiers and a sage surrounded by gold floral sprays, blue paper verso with four very strong diagonal lines of nasta'liq from a ghazal of Hilali Jagata'i on bold scrolling golden floral design, overpainted with fine floral illumination on gold ground, the title upper right and between the couplets, dated lower left, the signature in a large panel below Mir 'Ali al-Sultani al-Katib , illuminated margins, on buff leaf with elegant floral sprays, glazed each side and framed Painting 7 1/8 x 4 ¼in. (18 x 10.8cm.); calligraphy 5 7/8 x 2 7/8 in. (14.9 x 7.3cm.); folio 15 x 10 ¾in. (38.1 x 27cm.)
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