Title: Calligraphic Panel
Date: early 19th century
Location: Ottoman Turkey
Materials: gold and silver, on black-coated paper
Dimensions: 55.2 x 62cm
Accession Number: CAL 334
Other Notes:
The composition, a poem in Ottoman Turkish in praise of the Prophet, bears the signature of the Ottoman sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808–1839). The signature, which is in the shape of a pear, reads, ‘written by Mahmud ibn ‘Abd al-Hamid Khan.’
Another example of this composition signed by Mustafa Rakim and dated 1811 is known, and it is likely that the Sultan’s version is a copy of the latter: copying the work of masters would have been an essential part of Mahmud’s training as a calligrapher.
Mustafa Rakim, who was calligraphy teacher to Sultan Mahmud, is also said to have designed the form of the sultan’s signature. [see CAL 312]
Script:
written in jali thulth
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.91, pp.156 and 158.
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