SIGNED MUHAMMAD HUSAYN, MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY

• Verses from a ghazal of Amir Shahi, Persian manuscript on paper, the main panel with 8ll. strong black nasta'liq set diagonally on gold-speckled blue paper with six painted songbirds flanking the couplets, illuminated spandrels with calligrapher's signature to lower, the left hand panel with a further couplet set vertically, inscriptions in gold cusped cartouches above and below, laid down in gold and polychrome rules, gold illuminated narrow border and further rules, the margins with gold stencilled trees and animal combat pairs, within gold and polychrome outer rules, the reverse plain
• 21,0 x10,2 cm (8,3 x4,0in)