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A rare pair of Ottoman Calligraphic wood Panels, Turkey, circa 18th century
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description
- gold on wood
of hexagonal form, each with a gold frame, inscriptions in bold thuluth script in gold with accompanying pious invocations
Catalogue Note
inscriptions
Allah jalla jalaluhu
Muhammad 'alayhi al-salaam
Similar calligraphic panels can be found in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art and are published in the exhibition catalogue J.M. Rogers, Empire of the Sultans, London, 1995, pp.26-29, no.1.