OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 16TH CENTURY

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TWO ANGELS
OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 16TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, one line of black Turkish nasta'liq above and 3ll. below, within gold and polychrome rules, the margins plain, verso with 11ll. black, gold and blue nasta'liq, inventory sticker and inscriptions to upper right margin, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 4 3⁄8 x 3 ¼in. (11 x 8.1cm.); text panel 5 ¾ x 3 ¼in. (15 x 8.1cm.); folio 8 7⁄8 x 5 ¾in. (22.5 x 14.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

This illustration, which shows the angel Israfil with another unidentified angel, is very similar to another depicting an angel sounding a trumpet on the Day of Judgement in the Harvard Art Museums (Obj. no. 1956.196). Both folios are probably from the same manuscript which could be the Ahval-i Kiyamet. The text, which concerns the end of the world and subsequent events, was popular in the Ottoman domains in the late 16th and 17th centuries.

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