1958.123: Calligraphic Emblem of Sultan Mahmud I with Iris, folio from an album
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1958.123
- Title
- Calligraphic Emblem of Sultan Mahmud I with Iris, folio from an album
- Classification
- Albums
- Work Type
- album folio
- Date
- 1st half of 18th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Period
- Ottoman period
- Culture
- Ottoman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/194263
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paper with tooled gold and marbled paper border
- Dimensions
- 31.7 x 40.5 cm (12 1/2 x 15 15/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Rudolf M. Riefstahl Fund and the Alpheus Hyatt Fund
- Accession Year
- 1958
- Object Number
- 1958.123
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), page 79/figure 84
Exhibition History
- Islamic Art From the Collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/1974
- Islamic Art: Drawings, Calligraphies and Objects, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/29/1983 - 09/25/1983
- Geometry of the Spirit: Islamic Illumination and Calligraphy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/30/1988 - 06/26/1988
- The Ottomans and their Contemporaries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/21/1992 - 05/17/1992
- Calligraphy and the Arts of the Book, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/25/1993 - 01/30/1994
- Shadows of God On Earth: Arts of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Dynasties, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/21/1997 - 08/31/1997
Verification Level
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