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Ottoman Calligraphic Tomb, Turkey, 17th Century
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description
of rectangular form woven with green and cream silk threads with major and minor alternating horizontal chevron bands filled with calligraphy
Catalogue Note
inscriptions
Repetition of the following in four bands:
1. 'God is my Lord and there is no equal to Him, Muhammad is the Friend of God' (wide band)
2. 'O God! Bless and grant salvation upon the most noble of all the prophets and messengers' (narrow band)
3. 'Peace and salutation be upon you O The Messenger of God!' (wide band)
4. 'And May Mighty God be pleased with Abi Bakr and 'Umar and 'Uthman and 'Ali and the rest of friends all of them' (narrow band)
A similar piece in the Topkapi Museum , Istanbul, Turkey, inv. no.13/1690 is published in Nurhan Atasoy, Walter B. Denny, Louis W. Mackie and Hüyla Tezcan, Ipek - The Crescent & the Rose: Imperial Ottoman Silks and Velvets, London, 2001, p. 296, fig. 280.