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AN ALBUM PAGE: TWO SAYYIDS IN DISCUSSION DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY Opaque pigments
DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, both kneeling in a garden with trees and flowerbeds, the master listening to his pupil reading, a line of black nasta'liq script below, identifying them as Sayyid Jamna Zuli (?) and Sayyid 'Arab, in pink floral margins, laid down on brown card with gilt foliage, the reverse with a calligraphic panel of two lines of imposing black thuluth script, the wide brown borders with gold floral sprays
Page 16 ¼ x 9 ¼in. ( 41.2 x 23.5cm.); painting 7 x 4 ¾in. (17.9 x 12cm.)
DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, both kneeling in a garden with trees and flowerbeds, the master listening to his pupil reading, a line of black nasta'liq script below, identifying them as Sayyid Jamna Zuli (?) and Sayyid 'Arab, in pink floral margins, laid down on brown card with gilt foliage, the reverse with a calligraphic panel of two lines of imposing black thuluth script, the wide brown borders with gold floral sprays
Page 16 ¼ x 9 ¼in. ( 41.2 x 23.5cm.); painting 7 x 4 ¾in. (17.9 x 12cm.)
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