拍品專文
Born in 1687, Mehmed Rasim Efendi (d. 1755) studied calligraphy under the supervision of the famous court calligrapher Sayyid 'Abdullah Efendi of Yedikule. He got his diploma in six different styles of calligraphy and gained fame particularly for his masterly works in thulth and naskh. He was supported by Sultan Ahmed III (r.1703-1730) who also practiced calligraphy and was later appointed court calligrapher in 1737 (Sevket Rado, Turk Hattatlari, Istanbul, 1980). During the course of his life he is said to have trained approximately a thousand calligraphers, of whom Feyzullah Efendi was one (M. Ugur Derman, Letters in Gold, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1998, p. 82).