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INDIA, MUGHAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1600
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A GATHERING OF SUFIS
India, Mughal Period, circa 1600
Depicting a crowd of devotees outside a shrine possibly of the mevlavi order, with sufis dressed in long flowing robes with extended sleeves and wearing rounded turbans and hanging kamarbands, most holding scriptures and prayer beads, in the foreground a sufi with his hands extended above his head preparing to spin into a trance and steadied on either side by attendants, musicians and attendants offering wine in the lower left, all set against an architectural backdrop of elegant Mughal-style domes and minarets, partially colored and set inside wide gold-speckled blue border with wide floral gold margins; the verso with seven lines of elegant nasta'liq calligraphy with benedictory phrases, attributed to the calligrapher Muhammad Hussein, with an illuminated header above and set inside gold ruled polychrome margins
Transparent pigments on paper
7½ x 5 7/8 in. (19 x 15 cm.), painting
18¾ x 12½ in. (47.6 x 31.7 cm.), folio
India, Mughal Period, circa 1600
Depicting a crowd of devotees outside a shrine possibly of the mevlavi order, with sufis dressed in long flowing robes with extended sleeves and wearing rounded turbans and hanging kamarbands, most holding scriptures and prayer beads, in the foreground a sufi with his hands extended above his head preparing to spin into a trance and steadied on either side by attendants, musicians and attendants offering wine in the lower left, all set against an architectural backdrop of elegant Mughal-style domes and minarets, partially colored and set inside wide gold-speckled blue border with wide floral gold margins; the verso with seven lines of elegant nasta'liq calligraphy with benedictory phrases, attributed to the calligrapher Muhammad Hussein, with an illuminated header above and set inside gold ruled polychrome margins
Transparent pigments on paper
7½ x 5 7/8 in. (19 x 15 cm.), painting
18¾ x 12½ in. (47.6 x 31.7 cm.), folio
Provenance
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, mid 1980s
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