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Calligraphy in nasta`liq script signed by Mir Muhammad Ali
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The central panel of this album folio consists of a quatrain of Persian poetry most likely from the Divan of Naziri Nishapuri written diagonally in nasta`liq script on pale blue paper. The interlinear space is embellished with floral decoration in gold wash, with flecks of gold leaf.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Richard Bryant Hobart Cambridge MA (by 1963) by inheritance; to his daughter Mabel Hobart Cabot Cambridge MA (1963-2014) gift; to the Harvard Art Museums June 2014.
Richard Bryant Hobart (b. 1885 – d. 1963)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mabel H. Cabot in memory of her father Richard B. Hobart
Title: Calligraphy in nasta`liq script signed by Mir Muhammad Ali
Description:
The central panel of this album folio consists of a quatrain of Persian poetry most likely from the Divan of Naziri Nishapuri written diagonally in nasta`liq script on pale blue paper.
The interlinear space is embellished with floral decoration in gold wash, with flecks of gold leaf.
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