AN ILLUMINATED CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL, SIGNED BY ABDALLAH AL-MARWARID, PERSIA, TIMURID, DATED 903 AH/1497-98 AD
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June 10, 06:00 PM GMT
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AN ILLUMINATED CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL, SIGNED BY ABDALLAH AL-MARWARID, PERSIA, TIMURID, DATED 903 AH/1497-98 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 2 lines in bold thuluth within clouds against a blue and gold ground with spiral and palmettes, two lines in black naskh, cropped and mounted as an album page, framed
18.5 by 27cm.
34.3 by 43.7cm. framed
Abdallah al-Marwarid (d.1525) served as a vizir in the ministry of correspondence under Sultan Husayn Bayqara (r.1649-1506). He was a skilled calligrapher and bibliophile, author also of a poem titled Khosraw and Shirin. After the fall of Herat in 1511 he joined the court of Shah Ismail I (r.1501-24) for whom he wrote a chronical. Another calligraphic exercise copied by him and signed Abdallah Bayani is now in the Ahmad Soheyli Collection (published in A. Soudavar, Art of the Persian Courts, New York, 1992, p.157).