THE PAINTING ATTRIBUTABLE TO MUHAMMAD QASIM, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, CIRCA 1590; THE CALLIGRAPHY BY MUHAMMAD REZA, SAFAVID IRAN, MID 17TH CENTURY

• Ink and opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within blue border, gold, blue and red rules, the ivory margins plain, reverse with Chaghatay Turkish poetry from the Arba'in of 'Ali Sher Nava'i, 4ll. of yellow and gold nasta'liq set diagonally on an illuminated blue panel, within a fragmentary Mughal ivory inner border with stencilled gold flowers pasted down onto a plain blue outer border, gold and blue rules, the margins plain with the Eastern Arabic numeral '42' added in red ink and an unidentified inscription in black ink in the upper margin, mounted, framed and glazed
• 20,3 x8,3 cm (8,0 x3,3in)