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Study of a Dragon (recto), and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album.
Across Iran, India and Turkey, from the sixteenth century at least, albums (or muraqqa`) had become an important way of storing and presenting one's diverse collection of artworks on paper: valuable specimens of calligraphy, single-page paintings or drawings, and even European prints or Chinese paintings, all re-mounted in a careful sequence. This album was compiled in early seventeenth-century Ottoman Istanbul, probably for a private citizen.
Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, mounted on card, tinted drawing of a sinuous dragon framed in Persian calligraphy (on recto), and Persian verses in nasta`liq script by the Ottoman calligrapher Mir Mustafa, or Miri (on verso), mounted on album-page with marbled (ebru) borders, Istanbul, Turkey, calligraphy and drawing 1550-1600, album compiled c. 1620.
Study of a Dragon (recto), and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album
T 439.7
T_439_7
Turkish collection
Persian (language)
Approved Category 2017/Manuscript/Codex/Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Approved Place 2018/Asia/Turkey
Approved Place 2018/Asia/Turkey/Istanbul
Approved Place 2018/Asia/Turkey
Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Nasta'liq script
Calligraphy and drawing 1550-1600, album produced c. 1620
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1615
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1600
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1600
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Approved Material 2018/Organic/Plant (material)/Plant fibre/Paper (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Colourant (material)/Pigment (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Coating material/Ink (material)
Approved Material 2018/Inorganic/Metal (material)/Non-ferrous metal/Gold
Paper (material)
Pigment (material)
Ink (material)
Gold
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415 mm x 276 mm (height x width)
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Turkey
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Mir Mustafa
Mir Mustafa
Turkey
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