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Qajar Item Sold in Auction: Lot Description MIRZA MAHDI KHAN ASTARABADI (D.1759): TARIKH-I NADERI QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1225/1810-11 AD The history of Nadir Shah, Persian manuscript on European watermarked paper, 151ff. plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of elegant black nastaliq, key words and Quranic passages highlighted in red, set inside gold rules, headings in red nastaliq set in white clouds reserved against gold ground with polychrome floral illumination at either end, opening bifolium with black nastaliq in similar white cloud, illuminated gold and polychrome floral headpiece and margins with scrolling arabesques, in original floral lacquer binding, doublures with cusped medallions containing portraits of ladies in European dress and smaller birds set on a red ground with scrolling gold arabesques, two later seal impressions on the opening fly-leaf Text panel 7¼ x 4in. (18.4 x 10.4cm.); folio 10½ x 6 7/8in. (26.8 x 17.5cm.)
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 05:32:54 +0000

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