Chester Beatty
Yogini with a mynah bird, from the Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah Album
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Yogini with a mynah bird, from the Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah Album. Album folio, ink, colours and gold on paper mounted on card, Persian verses by Sharif al-Tabrizi in nasta`liq script signed Mu'izz al-Din Muhammad al-Husayn al-Katib (on recto), painting of a yogini with a mynah bird in a landscape, framed with Persian verses by Katibi in nasta`liq script, on gold-painted light blue card (on verso), painting from Bijapur, c. 1600, calligraphy dated 984H, 1576-7, folio possibly from an album compiled for Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (r. 1580-1612), Golconda and Hyderabad, Deccan, India, c. 1590-1605.
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