Two siyah mashq calligraphies from a single muraqqa album, Iran qâjâr, 19th century Two calligraphic exercises in Persian nasta'liq, the text inscribed on paper in monumental characters in several oblique lines in black ink in reserves with gilded floral decoration standing out against a gilded background. One of them alternates right-side-up and upside-down lines. Mounted as album pages on card stock with a blue border and red margin, and probably completed with small calligraphic cartouches by another hand. On the back, stamp of the same owner named Ahmad ibn Isma'il. Calligraphy size: 22.7 x 14.3 cm and 21.6 x 15.2 cm; page size: 27.8 x 18.8 cm Wear, ink bleeds, discoloration, traces of cutting.