$720
Persian Calligraphy within Marbled Frame. Single page of enhanced calligraphy, written in Nas'taliq script, two intertwining scripts in cobalt blue and a golden tan, both enhanced with minute floriate decoration within the strokes themselves, with diacritics in green diamond shapes, also enhanced with designs in very fine white penwork, with an additional inscription in white below, much smaller, outlined in black, a small cobalt lozenge in the upper right corner, and an older stamp in the lower left, the leaf mounted within a fancy paper frame, with a compartment of blue paper with gold flecks, and another of marbled paper, all pasted to a sheet of thin board, with a page in Persian pasted on the verso, the sheet toned, 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17
