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AN AMOROUS COUPLE IN A LANDSCAPE, PROBABLY BY THE MASTER PAINTER

MUHAMMAD 'ALI,

ISFAHAN MANNER, DECCAN OR MUGHAL INDIA

CIRCA 1660

verso with couplets in fine black nasta'liq. 17.7 x 10.7cm (7 x 4¼")

Another miniature from this series was sold at Christie's at King Street, London on 23rd April 2002, lot 69. It comes from a dispersed manuscript of a Diwan of Hafez of which another was published by Colnaghi (B.W.Robinson, in Persian and Mughal Art, 1976, no.52, p.75 and 77). Another manuscript with similar miniatures is in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (MS299) and in the Topkapi Saray library (H.1010). See also Soudavar, A.: Art of the Persian Courts, New York, no.125, p.297