Lot Essay
The cartouches are woven with repetitions of bismullah, the lateral border with a repetition of Surah al-Saaf (LXI), with the lower bands repeating 'Husayn the Murdered'.
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Details
CALLIGRAPHIC TOMB COVER, SAFAVID, CIRCA 1700
woven with end borders of green silk with calligraphic oblong cartouches, the field painted (fragmentary), circa 1700--35in. (90cm.) x 37in. (94cm.) at deepest point
woven with end borders of green silk with calligraphic oblong cartouches, the field painted (fragmentary), circa 1700--35in. (90cm.) x 37in. (94cm.) at deepest point
Provenance
Bacri Freres
Literature
A Welch, Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, Asia Society, 1979, No 64
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