• AMIR SHAHI (D.AH 857⁄1453 AD): DIWAN
  • Handicrafts and classics, Calligraphy, manuscript
  • 12.3 * 21.7 cm
  • SIGNED MUHAMMAD QASIM BIN SHADISHAH, SAFAVID HERAT, 16TH CENTURY
    Poetry, Persian manuscript on gold-speckled cream and blue paper, 41ff., plus four flyleaves, 14ll. of black nasta'liq divided into two columns with double gold intercolumnar rules, headings in white nasta'liq in gold and polychrome illuminated panels, within gold and polychrome rules, laid down within variously coloured margins illuminated in gold, the opening bifolio illuminated in gold and polychrome framing 5ll. of black nasta'liq in clouds reserved against a gold floral ground, colophon signed, in Qajar lacquer binding, lacquer doublures
    Text panel 4 3⁄4 x 2 1⁄2in. (12.2 x 6.2cm.); folio 8 1⁄2 x 4 1⁄7in. (21.7 x 12.3cm.)

Estimation
£10,000
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- £15,000
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Realized Price
£27,720
36,483 USD
121.76%
Artwork Description

Muhammad Qasim bin Shadishah was one of the leading scribes in nasta'liq in the late Timurid and early Safavid periods. Shams al-Din Muhammad Vasfi has recorded our scribe as a student of renowned calligrapher Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi while Dust Muhammad mentions him as the student of Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Nur and Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Khandan (see Wheeler H. Thackston, Album Prefaces and Other Documents on the History of Calligraphers and Painters, Leiden, 2001, pp.10-11, 21, 25, and 33). Another copy of Amir Shahi's Diwan by Muhammad Qasim bin Shadishah is in the Golestan Palace Library, Tehran, (see Mahdi Bayani, Ahwal wa-Athar-Khushnawisan, vols. 3-4, Tehran, reprint 1363 (1984), p. 808). A further manuscript in his hand was sold at Sotheby's, London, 22 April 2015, lot 103.
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