Detached album folio: verso: seated Indian youth; recto: text

Object Details

• Description

  Detached album folio; recto: calligraphy panel with eight hemistichs in Persian black nasta'liq script, corners embellished with triangular illumination; verso: Seated Indian youth.

  Border: Recto is set in a blue inner frame and a gold outer frame with two verses of a poem each on the upper and lower borders. The painting is set in red and black rulings followed by a gold inner frame with two verses each on the upper and lower borders and a red, black and green outer frame.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Bequest of Adrienne Minassian

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Place

  India

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Art, Henri Vever collection, Arts of the Islamic World, Indian dramatic forms

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts