2017 CKS 14218 0038 000(a turkoman prisoner And nastaliq calligraphy safavid iran second half)

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A TURKOMAN PRISONER AND NASTA'LIQ CALLIGRAPHY
SAFAVID IRAN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Recto with a tinted drawing of a heavily armed Turkoman prisoner, his arm fettered to his neck, a bowl in his free hand, some staining, laid down between gold and polychrome rules on pink margins with gold floral illumination, verso with a folio from a manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, with 15ll. of neat black nasta’liq in two columns, floral gold intercolumnar rule laid down between blue border with gilt highlights on similar pink margins
Painting 9 x 5 5/8in. (23 x 14.5cm.); calligraphy 6 ? x 3 ?in. (17.1 x 8.2cm.); folio 11 3/8 x 6 7/8in. (29 x 17.6cm.)