Title: Calligraphic Panel
Date: mid-19th century
Location: Ottoman Turkey
Materials: gold and silver on paper coated deep brick-red
Dimensions: 40.8 x 95.5cm
Accession Number: CAL 448
Other Notes:
The composition, from surah Yusuf (XII), verse 64, is signed ‘Abd al-Majid ibn Mahmud Khan, that is Sultan Abdulmajid I (Abdülmecid I; r. 1839–1861).
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.94, pp.160–61.
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