Accession number
MS W.57
Object title
[Persian calligraphy album].
Display Date
[ca. 1780-1799]
Created
[ca. 1780-1799]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia Parker Wightman, 1994.
Description
16 leaves (2 columns, 6-8 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 162 x 95 mm.
Provenance
Owner's stamp at foot of folio 3; Walter Schatzki, New York; purchased by Julia Parker Wightman from Schatzki in 1952; JPW 1928; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes
Ms. calligraphy album; written and illuminated in Iran, late 18th century.
Decoration: different colored papers with inlaid center rectangle of very thin, cream-colored paper, written with 6-8 lines of script on the diagonal within areas of plain paper, surrounded by gold leaf; bordered with painted gold floral motifs. On some of the papers can be seen fragments of diverse 18th-century watermarks.
Binding: 19th-century Persian (Qajar?) lacquer binding of floral motifs on brown ground [gul-o bulbul] with wavy borders, 1/4 leather back, red lacquer doublures with flower sprays; in cloth-covered box by JPW 1952.
Decoration: different colored papers with inlaid center rectangle of very thin, cream-colored paper, written with 6-8 lines of script on the diagonal within areas of plain paper, surrounded by gold leaf; bordered with painted gold floral motifs. On some of the papers can be seen fragments of diverse 18th-century watermarks.
Binding: 19th-century Persian (Qajar?) lacquer binding of floral motifs on brown ground [gul-o bulbul] with wavy borders, 1/4 leather back, red lacquer doublures with flower sprays; in cloth-covered box by JPW 1952.
Script
nastaʻlīq.
Language
In Persian;
Century
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