Album of calligraphic practice sheets

Object Details

• Artist

  Sayyid Ahmad (Khwaja-zada) (active 18th century)

• Description

  Album of calligraphic practice sheets, comprising seven folios of calligraphic exercises; text: Persian in black proportioned script (khatt al-mansub); inscriptions contain the name al-Sayyid Ahmad, known as Kwaja-zada and the date A.H.1159.

• Inscriptions

  On the last three folios: "The exercise [mashq] of the lowly, al-Sayyid Ahmad, known as Khwaja-zada, may God be pleased with him [A.H.] 1159 [A.D. 1746]."

• Provenance

  To 2002

  Hamid Atighetchi, London, England. [1]

  From 2002

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Hamid Atighetchi, London, England. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See Deed of Gift, object file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection (March 6 to August 31, 2009)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. Hamid Atighetchi

• Origin

  Turkey

• Credit Line

  Gift of Hamid Atighetchi

• Type

  Calligraphy

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1740s

• Name

  Atighetchi, Hamid

• Topic

  Art, Ottoman period (1307 - 1922), Arts of the Islamic World

• Culture

  Muslims, Turks

• Object Type

  Calligraphy (visual works)