1958.182.1: Illuminated text (verso); Owner's Seal (recto), folio from an album of calligraphy, right-hand side of a bifolio

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1958.182.1

People

Sultan Ali Mashhadi, Persian (fl. 1453-1519)

Title

Illuminated text (verso); Owner's Seal (recto), folio from an album of calligraphy, right-hand side of a bifolio

Classification

Albums

Work Type

album folio

Date

c. 1500-1520

Places

Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Eastern Iran

Culture

Persian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/216192

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Dimensions

folio: 30.16 x 20.16 cm (11 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet

Accession Year

1958

Object Number

1958.182.1

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Anthony Welch, Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, University of Tennessee Press (Austin, TX, 1979), page 132-133/figure 52
• Jon Thompson, ed., Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Iran, 1501 - 1576, exh. cat., Skira (New York, 2003), p 139, fig 5.2

Exhibition History

• Arabesque, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/01/1990 - 03/24/1991
• Calligraphy and the Arts of the Book, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/25/1993 - 01/30/1994
• Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran, 1501-76, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 03/10/2004 - 06/27/2004
• 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/06/2019 - 08/02/2021

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