1985.247: Illuminated firman (royal decree) with ornamental tughra of Sultan Ahmed III (r.1703-1730)
Calligraphy
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1985.247
- Title
- Illuminated firman (royal decree) with ornamental tughra of Sultan Ahmed III (r.1703-1730)
- Classification
- Calligraphy
- Work Type
- calligraphy
- Date
- 1721
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Period
- Ottoman period
- Culture
- Ottoman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215583
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ink, colors and gold on paper
- Dimensions
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124 x 50.2 cm (48 13/16 x 19 3/4 in.)
frame: 162.6 x 66 x 4.8 cm (64 x 26 x 1 7/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Joseph Soustiel, Paris, summer 1968], sold; to Edwin Binney, 3rd, 1968, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1985.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Edwin Binney, 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums
- Accession Year
- 1985
- Object Number
- 1985.247
- 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), p.100, fig. 33
- Edwin Binney III, Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd, exh. cat., Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, 1979), pp.101-102, fig. 64
- Amy Landau, ed., Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts, exh. cat., The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, 2015), p. 226, fig. 7.15
Exhibition History
- The Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1987 - 08/02/1987
- Geometry of the Spirit: Islamic Illumination and Calligraphy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/30/1988 - 06/26/1988
- Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, c. 1600–1900, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 11/03/2007 - 02/03/2008; Asia Society Museum, New York, 10/07/2008 - 02/08/2009; Michael C. Carlos Museum of Art, Atlanta, 08/28/2010 - 12/05/2010
- Traces of the Poet, Artist, and Patron in the Age of Islamic Empires, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 11/08/2015 - 01/31/2016; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, 02/26/2016 - 05/08/2016
Verification Level
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