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OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH TO 19TH CENTURY
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FOUR CALLIGRAPHIC PANELS (QIT'AS)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH TO 19TH CENTURY
Comprising an early panel of three lines of elegant black thuluth script, interstices filled in red, between later added black-ruled gold interlinear divisions, with gilt red borders, a probably 17th or 18th century panel with two lines of black thuluth script divided by a gold line, with illuminated roundel and gilt floral spray, and two 19th century panels, each with a line of large thuluth script above a line of smaller black naskh script, one with gold and polychrome illumination, the other with marbled paper borders, each individually framed and glazed
Largest panel 4½ x 7in. (11.5 x 17.8cm.) (4)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH TO 19TH CENTURY
Comprising an early panel of three lines of elegant black thuluth script, interstices filled in red, between later added black-ruled gold interlinear divisions, with gilt red borders, a probably 17th or 18th century panel with two lines of black thuluth script divided by a gold line, with illuminated roundel and gilt floral spray, and two 19th century panels, each with a line of large thuluth script above a line of smaller black naskh script, one with gold and polychrome illumination, the other with marbled paper borders, each individually framed and glazed
Largest panel 4½ x 7in. (11.5 x 17.8cm.) (4)