Detached album folio: Page of calligraphy; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; quatrain arranged in four diagonal lines; corners embellished with triangular illuminated panels; signed by Ali Kashmiri. Border: The text is set in gold, black and white rulings with an inner frame of gold foliate scroll, mounted on marbled paperboard. Bottom left, triangular illuminated panel: “written by the slave Ali Kashmiri." Arthur M. Sackler Collection Variations on a Script: Islamic Calligraphy from the Vever Collection (February 18 to September 16, 1990)
Authors
- Collection
- Google Cultural Institute Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Date published
- 16th century
- Dates
- Mughal dynasty
- Format
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Pages
- H x W (overall): 17.1 x 26.9 cm (6 3/4 x 10 9/16 in)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- S1986.338
- Rights
- Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/cc1069bbb4962c9fd6e585651b4ee88a
