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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1958.182.2
People
Sultan Ali Mashhadi, Persian (fl. 1453-1519)
Title
Illuminated text (recto); Calligraphic Composition (verso), folio from an album of calligraphy, left-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/216117

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
1958.182.2
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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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), [ 138. fig 5.2

Exhibition History

  • Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, Asia House, 01/11/1979 - 03/11/1979; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 04/17/1979 - 05/27/1979; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 06/28/1979 - 08/12/1979; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 09/14/1979 - 10/28/1979
  • 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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