- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Detached album folio: Page of calligraphy; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; quatrain arranged in four diagonal lines; corners embellished with triangular illuminated panels; inscribed to Mir Ali.
Border: The central panel is set in gold and black rulings in a gold floral scroll inner frame and a calligraphic border outer frame containing couplets from the Divan of Amir Shahi, mounted on a paperboard with gold floral and geometric motifs.
- Inscription(s)
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Triangular panel, bottom left: “Slave Mir Ali. May [God] forgive his sins."
- Published References
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- Glenn D. Lowry, Milo Cleveland Beach, Elisabeth West FitzHugh, Susan Nemanzee, Janet Snyder. An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection. Washington and Seattle. cat. 438, p. 356.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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