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Lot 168•
Five Persian calligraphic exercises: A. an illuminated album page of nasta'liq script, signed by Ahmad al-Tabrizi Persia, dated AH 1286/AD 1869-70(5)
8 October 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Five Persian calligraphic exercises: A. an illuminated album page of nasta'liq script, signed by Ahmad al-Tabrizi
Persia, dated AH 1286/AD 1869-70
Persia, dated AH 1286/AD 1869-70
Persian manuscript on paper, four lines of nasta'liq script written diagonally in black ink within cloudbands, against a ground of floral motifs, laid down on an album page with an outer border of floral motifs in red on a grey-green ground, framed, 300 x 170 mm.; B. an album page of nasta'liq script, signed by Ahmad, Persia, dated AH 1285/AD 1868-69, Persian manuscript on paper, four lines of nasta'liq script written diagonally within margins ruled in red and gold, laid down on an album page with coloured borders, framed, 243 x 175 mm.; C. an album page of calligraphic exercises in thuluth/tal'iq script, Persian manuscript on paper, text written in two lines of thuluth/ta'liq script in black ink, laid down on card, in mount, framed, 143 x 267 mm.; D. an album page of shikasteh calligraphy, signed by [...] Isfahani, Persia, Tehran, dated AH 1134[?]/AD 1734[?], Persian manuscript on fine cloth, text written within cloudbands on a gold ground, framed, 168 x 104 mm.; E. a fragment consisting of two lines of elegant ta'liq script, the names of the Imams picked out in gold or blue, Arabic text, Persia, 16th Century, Persian manuscript on cotton, framed
98 x 184 mm.(5)
98 x 184 mm.(5)