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  • Muzaffar 'Ali (flourished circa 1540-1576,
    Apr. 08, 2009

    Muzaffar 'Ali (flourished circa 1540-1576,

    Est: £15,000 - £20,000

    Muzaffar 'Ali (flourished circa 1540-1576, attributed). Winged archangel holding the Koran, Tabriz, circa 1540, opaque watercolour and gold leaf on paper, elaborately decorated borders in gold and colours, containing verses in Arabic from the Sufi mystic poet Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi, 260 x 190 mm (10.25 x 7.5 ins), laid down on orig. album leaf, decorated with foliate decoration painted in gold, album leaf 445 x 310 mm (17.5 x 12.25 ins), the verso similarly decorated with gold foliate outer border onto which is mounted a sheet with Arabic script and decorative borders in gold, to the centre of which a fine Persian botanical study of a pink rose, possibly European, 17th/18th century, on vellum, has been overlaid, some soiling, creasing and minor damage, later frame with handwritten note by Wilfrid Blunt to reverse. From the collection of Wilfrid Blunt (1901-1987), writer, scholar and master at Eton College. A similar painting, attributed to Muzaffar 'Ali, depicting a hunter on horseback, was purchased by the British Museum from the artist Howard Hodgkin in 1995, and had been given to Hodgkin by Wilfrid Blunt while at Eton College. A fine example of the great Persian miniaturist and calligrapher Muzaffar 'Ali (active circa 1540-1576), who worked for Shah Tahmasp I, and contributed to his Shah-nameh and Khamseh between 1539 and 1543. We are grateful to Dr. Sheila Canby for this attribution. See Canby, Golden Age of Persian Art 1501-1722, pp. 54-55, where the companion leaf now in the British Museum is illustrated. (1)

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