Title: Calligraphic Composition
Date: 19th century
Location: Iran
Materials: ink and gold on paper; mounted on board within borders of gold-sprinkled tinted paper
Dimensions: 13.1 x 8.8cm (text panel)
Accession Number: CAL 133
Other Notes:
The composition takes on the Ninety-Nine Names of God (al-Asma’ al-Husna) and turns them into a complex pattern, in which the names are paired off on the basis of letter forms held in common and arrange reciprocally. The colophon is incorporated into the design.
Script:
written in naskh script
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.167, pp.221 and 223.
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