STUDY OF A LADY WITH CALLIGRAPHY
QAZVIN, CIRCA 1550
STUDY OF A LADY WITH CALLIGRAPHY QAZVIN, CIRCA 1550 Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a seated lady in an orange robe and gold-embroidered blue cloak, wearing a white headress held by a jewelled band, sits slightly angled holding an album leaf in both hands, within an arched surround and with two panels containing lines of flowing nasta'liq Persian verse mounted above and to the left of the miniature, laid down within heavily illuminated royal blue border mounted on an album leaf with gold floral stencilled decoration, verso with central panel of three horizontal lines of black nasta'liq on blue ground with gold flowers, bordered with calligraphic panels and laid down with similar boldly illuminated cobalt-blue borders, with red and gold margins and blue rule, on aubergine paper with gold heightened stencilled arabesques, unframed Miniature 5 x 2¾in. (12.7 x 7cm.); Folio 13 3/8 x 9½in. (33.9 x 24.2cm.)
STUDY OF A LADY WITH CALLIGRAPHY
QAZVIN, CIRCA 1550
STUDY OF A LADY WITH CALLIGRAPHY QAZVIN, CIRCA 1550 Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a seated lady in an orange robe and gold-embroidered blue cloak, wearing a white headress held by a jewelled band, sits slightly angled holding an album leaf in both hands, within an arched surround and with two panels containing lines of flowing nasta'liq Persian verse mounted above and to the left of the miniature, laid down within heavily illuminated royal blue border mounted on an album leaf with gold floral stencilled decoration, verso with central panel of three horizontal lines of black nasta'liq on blue ground with gold flowers, bordered with calligraphic panels and laid down with similar boldly illuminated cobalt-blue borders, with red and gold margins and blue rule, on aubergine paper with gold heightened stencilled arabesques, unframed Miniature 5 x 2¾in. (12.7 x 7cm.); Folio 13 3/8 x 9½in. (33.9 x 24.2cm.)
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