A PAGE FROM A CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM (MUFRADAT)

SCHOOL OF AHMAD QARAHISARI (D. 1556-7 AD), POSSIBLY BY HIM, OTTOMAN TURKEY, FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY

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A PAGE FROM A CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM (MUFRADAT)
SCHOOL OF AHMAD QARAHISARI (D. 1556-7 AD), POSSIBLY BY HIM, OTTOMAN TURKEY, FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY
Black ink on paper, a succession of combined letters illustrating various forms of the letter mim, three lines of large black thuluth script arranged between two lines of smaller black naskh script, with four gold and black rosette, laid down between marbled paper within black-ruled gold frame, framed and glazed
Calligraphy 9 1/8 x 8 1/8in. (23.3 x 20.6cm.)

Provenance

Adrienne Minassian, New York, 1955
The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, sold Sotheby's, 6 April 2011, lot 71 (part).

Lot Essay

A leaf of identical composition, illustrating various forms of the letter ha is published in Annemarie Schimmel, Calligraphy and Islamic Culture, New York and London, 1984, p.76-77, Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum). It very probably comes from an album signed by Ahmad Qarahisari (1469-1556 AD) of which a panel with the signed colophon is also in the Harvard University Museums (Gift of John Goelet, 1958.208, https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/215386).

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