THE PAINTING ASCRIBED TO MANOHAR, MUGHAL INDIA, EARLY 17TH CENTURY; THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED 'ABDULLAH AL-HUSAYNI, MUGHAL INDIA, DATED AH 1017 / 1608-9 AD

• Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, ascribed Manohar to the lower left corner, laid down with gold-illuminated inner borders, one with eight bayts of nasta'liq reserved against gold illuminated ground, the margins finely illuminated with mammals and waterfowl in gold and polychrome in a landscape of flowers and streams, the reverse with 11ll. strong black nasta'liq set diagonally with an additional 2ll. set vertically to the left, in illuminated blue and buff borders, the margins with lifelike flowers and elegant clouds, mounted, framed and glazed
• 20,3 x5,4 cm (8,0 x2,1in)