Two calligraphies from the same muraqqa album, Iran qâjâr, 1 - Lot 276

Two calligraphies from the same muraqqa album, Iran qâjâr, 19th century Two calligraphies on paper in Persian nasta'liq in black ink in reserves on a gold background. The first, composed of six staggered distichs in reserves with red outlines; the second composed of 8 horizontal lines completed with the date 1265 H / 1848 and the name of the calligrapher Vesal, and followed by the probably apocryphal name of the copyist al-Osted 'Emad Hassani inscribed in smaller characters. Mounted on album pages on green card stock, decorated with a latticework of starry-hearted medallions with red and gold borders. Dim. calligraphies: 17.2 x 9.7 cm and 16.1 x 8.7 cm; dim. pages: 29.7 x 18.3 cm Wear, stains, small accidents, sun-stained margins, some words erased on the second page. An apocryphal inscription on the second calligraphy attributes it to Safavid calligrapher 'Emad Hassani, but the erased words followed by the name "Vesal" on the last line seem to refute this attribution. In view of the date indicated, it could be the work of Abo'l Qasem Farhang ibn al-Vesal, son of the great poet and calligrapher Muhammad Shafi' known as Vesal of Shiraz (1779-1846).