2014.127: Calligraphy in nasta`liq script signed by Mir Muhammad Ali
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2014.127
- Title
- Calligraphy in nasta`liq script signed by Mir Muhammad Ali
- Classification
- Albums
- Work Type
- album folio
- Date
- Early 17th century
- Period
- Safavid period
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/351368
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ink and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- framed: 44 x 30 cm (17 5/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Richard Bryant Hobart, Cambridge, MA, (by 1963), by inheritance; to his daughter, Mabel Hobart Cabot, Cambridge, MA , (1963-2014), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, June 2014.
Richard Bryant Hobart (b. 1885 – d. 1963),
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mabel H. Cabot in memory of her father Richard B. Hobart
- Accession Year
- 2014
- Object Number
- 2014.127
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- The central panel of this album folio consists of a quatrain of Persian poetry most likely from the Divan of Naziri Nishapuri written diagonally in nasta`liq script on pale blue paper. The interlinear space is embellished with floral decoration in gold wash, with flecks of gold leaf.
Verification Level
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