Title: Calligraphic Composition
Location: Ottoman Turkey
Materials: ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper; mounted on card, within borders of embossed paper ribbon
Dimensions: 30 x 31.2cm
Accession Number: CAL 353
Other Notes:
The name ‘Muhammad’ is written in mirrored thulth script, and filled with Qur'anic verses in ghubar.
Script:
written in mirrored thulth and ghubar scripts
Bibliography:
N.F. Safwat, The Art of the Pen. Calligraphy of the 14th to 20th Centuries, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume V, London 1996, cat.134, pp.192–3.
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