Page of calligraphy from the Late Shahjahan Album; left-hand half of a double-page composition; Persian in black nasta'liq script; one column; six lines of text; attributed to Mir Ali. Border: The couplets are set in horizontal rectangles in an illuminated page; the page is set in gold and white rulings in an inner frame with a turquoise floral scroll, and an outer frame with cartouches and quatrefoils motifs, mounted on a brown-colored paperboard of floral cartouches. Arthur M. Sackler Collection Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha (December 18, 2021 to May 15, 2022) The Jewel and the Rose: Art of Shah Jahan (May 4, 1997 to January 25, 1998) Variations on a Script: Islamic Calligraphy from the Vever Collection (February 18 to September 16, 1990) A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (November 20, 1988 to April 30, 1989)
Authors
- Collection
- Google Cultural Institute Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Date published
- circa 1640
- Dates
- circa 1640-1650
- Format
- Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Pages
- H x W: 48.3 x 35.9 cm (19 x 14 1/8 in)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- S1986.93
- 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/833302e6a90252337a49cf81f8f78d8e