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A CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL A SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY
SIGNED MAHMUD IBN ISHAQ AL-SHAHABI, The son of a Turcoman governor of Herat, DISH
SHAYBANID BALKH OR BUKHARA, DATED Mahmud ibn Ishaq al-Shahabi was taken to KIRMAN, SOUTH EAST IRAN,
AH 983/1575-76 AD Bukhara after the city fell to ‘Ubaydallah Khan in 17TH CENTURY
Persian manuscript on paper, the central AH 935/1528-29 AD. There he received training The white ground decorated in cobalt blue, sage
rectangular panel of gold-speckled paper with from the great calligrapher Mir ‘Ali Haravi green, and red, the centre with a floral spray,
2ll. of elegant black nasta’liq with floral sprays, (d.1544). Later on he moved to Balkh, where he surrounded by alternating Chinese-inspired
flanking a narrower line of calligraphy, within motifs, the exterior with floral motifs and an old
worked for a local governor. His recorded works
a gold field with a floral lattice, two figures exhibition label, intact
date between AH 924/1518-19 AD and AH
later painted to either side, framed by gold and 10q in. (27cm.) diam.
993/1585-86 AD (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval-va asar-e
polychrome borders, the outer margin of pink dyed
khosh-nevisan, vol III., Tehran, 1346, pp.876-80). £5,000-7,000 US$5,800-8,000
paper with gold floral illumination, mounted on
forest-green card Other calligraphies of his handwriting have sold €5,800-8,000
Panel 8º x 4¬in. (20.8 x 11.6cm.); mount 11q x in these Rooms, 27 April 2017, lot 85, and 24
7qin. (29.2 x 18.9cm.) October 2019, lot 50. For a full account of his life PROVENANCE:
see V. Minorsky (tr.), Calligraphers and Painters, Anon sale, Sotheby’s, London, 29th April 1993,
£6,000-8,000 US$6,900-9,100
Washington, 1959, p. 131. lot 166
€6,900-9,100
EXHIBITED:
South Kensington Museum (Victoria & Albert
Museum), 1870s
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AMIR KHUSRAW DEHLAVI (D. AH 725/1324-25 AD):
MATLA' AL-ANWAR
COPIED BY MUHAMMAD AL-KATIB, SAFAVID IRAN,
DATED SHA'BAN AH 989/SEPTEMBER 1581 AD
Poetry, Persian manuscript on cream burnished paper, 132ff. plus four fly-
leaves, each folio with 12ll. of elegant black nasta'liq arranged in two columns
with headings in red ink, within orange, gold and blue rules, catchwords,
opening folio with gold and blue headpiece, colophon signed and dated,
in elegant contemporaneous binding with flap with blind tooled panels,
doublures in brown leather with decoupé arabesque medallion with pendants
and spandrels over blue panels
Text panel 5w x 2win. (14.9 x 7.5cm.); folio 7æ x 5ºin. (19.6 x 13.2cm.)
£8,000-12,000 US$9,200-14,000
€9,200-14,000

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