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Location: Ottoman Turkey
Materials: cut from cream paper; backed onto dark-blue paper
Dimensions: 56 x 78.5cm
Accession Number: CAL 320
Other Notes:
The text is the shahadah and bears the signature of the calligrapher ‘Arif, as well as that of the person who executed the cut-out work, Rifqi (Rifki).
Script:
executed in jali thulth and riqa‘ 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.142, pp.200 and 203.
