PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION, SIGNED BY MIR MUHAMMAD, PERSIA, QAJAR, DATED 1247 AH/1831 AD
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October 23, 04:16 PM GMT
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
A CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION, SIGNED BY MIR MUHAMMAD, PERSIA, QAJAR, DATED 1247 AH/1831 AD
ink on paper, signature and date at lower centre, mounted with borders of stout paper
calligraphic panel: 12.7 by 23cm.
Ex-collection Adrienne Minassian, New York, 1955.
Ex-collection Stuart Cary Welch (d.2008), sold in these rooms, 6 April 2011, lot 72.
Line and Space: Calligraphies from Medieval Islam, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 1984.
Two other calligraphic designs by the same calligrapher have been sold in these rooms, 27 April 1982, lots 28 and 29. One was dated 1834 and recorded the scribe's nisba as Qazwini, the other was dated 1844. The text is Qur'an, part of verse 137 of Surah al-Baqarah (II).