AN ALBUM PAGE WITH CALLIGRAPHY IN NASTA'LIQ SCRIPT, PERSIA, CIRCA 1600

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

2 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches

Album page, ink, opaque watercolour and gold, main panel with two lines of nasta'liq script written horizontally in black ink on cream paper on a ground of polychrome illumination, upper and lower inner borders with small panels of calligraphy and illumination, mounted on an album page with wide borders of cream paper decorated with gold floral motifs, labels on reverse of Kirkor Minassian and New York Exhibition of 1940, and CMA

Provenance

Kirkor Minassian, New York, 1930s-40s
Adrienne Minassian, New York, 1955

Exhibited

Exhibition of Persian Art, The Iranian Institute, New York, 1940

Literature

Ackerman 1940

Catalogue Note

The text of this panel of calligraphy consists of extracts from a prose text, possibly a letter, and couplets from different ghazals of Hafiz.