Lot 4
Lot 4
A PAIR OF ALBUM PAGES

PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY AND EARLIER, CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED 'ABD AL-KARIM AND AHMAD AL-HUSAYNI

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A PAIR OF ALBUM PAGES

PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY AND EARLIER, CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED 'ABD AL-KARIM AND AHMAD AL-HUSAYNI

Price Realised GBP 2,250
Price Realised GBP 2,250
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A PAIR OF ALBUM PAGES
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY AND EARLIER, CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED 'ABD AL-KARIM AND AHMAD AL-HUSAYNI
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the first painting depicting a lady in a transparent choli braiding her hair, a grey background behind, verso with an elegant black nasta'liq quatrain and couplet in clouds reserved against gold ground, signed 'Abd al-Karim, the second painting depicting a lady holding sparklers, the verso with an elegant nasta'liq quatrain in similar clouds decorated with gold palmettes and scrolling vine on gold ground, signed Ahmad al-Husayni, each album page with gold scrolling vine borders, on wide gold speckled margins
Paintings 5½ x 3½in. (14 x 8.8cm.); folio 13½ x 9¼in. (34.5 x 23.3cm.)
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