Lot Essay
The calligrapher was from Tabriz, but was active in Egypt and in the service of the late Ottoman court (Mehdi Bayani, ahval va athar-e khosh-nevisan, no.781, Tehran, 1358, p.579).
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BY MUHAMMAD QASIM, OTTOMAN EGYPT, AH 1290/1873-4 AD
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A LARGE ILLUMINATED CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL
BY MUHAMMAD QASIM, OTTOMAN EGYPT, AH 1290/1873-4 AD
Arabic and Persian on card, with large white central nasta'liq inscription li-malik al-'alam iskandar over blue ground with swirling orange foliage, surrounded by dark red border divided into four panels containing green inscriptions and with two smaller panels above and below containing Persian couplet, the whole enclosed in illuminated border of interlocking green and black panels with further inscriptions in gold on blue ground, the margins cream, white, black and pale blue, some areas of flaking, framed and glazed
Folio 24 x 43¼in (61 x 110cm.)
BY MUHAMMAD QASIM, OTTOMAN EGYPT, AH 1290/1873-4 AD
Arabic and Persian on card, with large white central nasta'liq inscription li-malik al-'alam iskandar over blue ground with swirling orange foliage, surrounded by dark red border divided into four panels containing green inscriptions and with two smaller panels above and below containing Persian couplet, the whole enclosed in illuminated border of interlocking green and black panels with further inscriptions in gold on blue ground, the margins cream, white, black and pale blue, some areas of flaking, framed and glazed
Folio 24 x 43¼in (61 x 110cm.)
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