Title: Calligraphic Panel
Date: third quarter of the 19th century
Location: Ottoman Turkey
Materials: gold and silver on black-coated paper
Dimensions: 33.2 x 60.5cm
Accession Number: CAL 403
Other Notes:
Although the composition – an Arabic aphorism which reads ‘God will help you in all matters’ – is signed by Sultan ‘Abdulaziz, it is most probably not his own, as he was not known for the quality of his calligraphy.
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.95, pp.160–61.
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