A Turkoman Prisoner And Nasta’liq Calligraphy Provenance – Christies Auction, London – Art Of The Islamic And Indian Worlds Including Oriental Rugs And Carpets 26 October 2017 – Lot No. 38

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A Turkoman Prisoner And Nasta’liq Calligraphy Provenance – Christies Auction, London – Art Of The Islamic And Indian Worlds Including Oriental Rugs And Carpets 26 October 2017 – Lot No. 38

A TURKOMAN PRISONER AND NASTA’LIQ CALLIGRAPHY SAFAVID IRAN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY Recto with a tinted drawing of a heavily armed Turkoman prisoner, his arm fettered to his neck, a bowl in his free hand, some staining, laid down between gold and polychrome rules on pink margins with gold floral illumination, verso with a folio from a manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, with 15ll. of neat black nasta’liq in two columns, floral gold intercolumnar rule laid down between blue border with gilt highlights on similar pink margins Painting 9 x 5 5/8in. (23 x 14.5cm.); calligraphy 6 ¾ x 3 ¼in. (17.1 x 8.2cm.); folio 11 3/8 x 6 7/8in. (29 x 17.6cm.)

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