Dara Shikoh with Mian Mir and Mulla Shah

Mughal Court Mughal School Detached album folio; Dara-Shikoh with Main Mir and Mulla Shah; text in cartouches: Persian in black nasta'liq script; two unidentified quatrain within cartouches; obliterated seal; inscriptions containing the name of Mulla Shah, Dara-Shikoh, and Main Mir. Border: The painting is set in gold and black rulings in a gold-sprinkled border, surrounded by a border with floral and animal motifs and marginal cartouches, mounted on a cream-colored paperboard. Identifications on illustrations: right side (identifying upper middle figure in white): Mian Mir; left side (1, identifying figure facing Mian Mir): Mulla Shah; (2,identifying figure to left of Mulla Shah): Dara Shikoh. Upper sides and top cartouches: 2 lines (4 hemistiches) of an unidentified quatrain: Dar kûy-i tu kaz dîda guhar mîrezad/ vaz har muzha khûnân-i jigar mîrezad/ chun nâma-i man burd kabûtar k'ânjâ/ jâmîst ki Jibrîl [ba] par mîrezad [In your lane. "Where tear-pearls rain from my eyes,/ and from every lash my passion's blood spills,/ when the dove carries my message there,/ it is a goblet that Gabriel pours over his wings." Lower sides and bottom cartouches: 3 hemistiches of an unidentified quatrain: Chun garm shavad zi bâda mârâ rag u pay/ kunjî u farâghatî u yak shîsha-i may/ bâ shâhid-i shûkh u shang u bâ barbat u nay. Arthur M. Sackler Collection Arts of Mughal India (2004) (August 21, 2004 to February 6, 2005) The Vision of Kings: Art and Experience in India (November 25, 1995 to April 28, 1996) A Mughal Hunt (March 13 to September 11, 1994) Arts of Mughal India (1992) (May 24 to December 6, 1992) A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (November 20, 1988 to April 30, 1989)