Sa'di with Companions in a Landscape

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, laid down within gold and polychrome rules, light blue borders with gold floral meander, the margins decorated with vertical columns of gold floral meander on a plain ground alternating with columns of gold, later inscription in black Urdu along the upper edge identifying the scene and attributing the work to Balchand, 'tasvir' written similarly along the bottom edge, the reverse with a calligraphic panel, a Persian qasida in praise of Imam 'Ali, 11ll. fine nasta'liq written horizontally and on the diagonal in clouds reserved against a gold ground with polychrome floral decoration, the buff borders with gold floral meander, the blue margins decorated with offset rows of red flowers, mounted, framed and glazed

Estimate:$33,320

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