THE SHAKERINE COLLECTION: Calligraphy in Qur’ans and other Manuscripts
THE SHAKERINE COLLECTION: Calligraphy in Qur’ans and other Manuscripts
AN ILLUMINATED HILYE, SIGNED BY MEHMET SADIQ AGHA MERMER HUMAYUN SHAHINSHAH, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1255 AH/1839-40 AD
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AN ILLUMINATED HILYE, SIGNED BY MEHMET SADIQ AGHA MERMER HUMAYUN SHAHINSHAH, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1255 AH/1839-40 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 24 lines to the page, written in naskh and thuluth scripts, the names of the Four Caliphs in roundels, decorated in a rococo style with saz leaves on a turquoise ground, outer margins with gold floral scrolls
55.7 by 33.6cm.
Christie's London, 16 October 1980, lot 109.