- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Detached album folio; Page of calligraphy; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; central panel with a quatrain; corners and sides embellished with triangular illuminated panels; signed and dated in the lower left corner- piece by Muhammad Qasim ibn Shadishah at A.H. 959, A.D. 1551-52.
Border: The text is set in gold and black rulings with an inner frame of floral scroll on a green background, mounted on a paperboard with stenciled birds and floral motifs and marginal medallions with animals.
- Inscription(s)
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Bottom left corner- piece, “slave Muhammad Qasim ibn Shadishah [A.H.] 959, [A.D. 1551-52].
- Published References
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- Glenn D. Lowry, Milo Cleveland Beach, Elisabeth West FitzHugh, Susan Nemanzee, Janet Snyder. An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection. Washington and Seattle. cat. 447, p. 360.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- SI Usage Statement
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