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Folio of Persian Poetry
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The folio features couplets of Persian poetry written diagonally in shikasta script and black ink, on paper enhanced by the decorative technique of marbling. On the verso side, the text block and three-quarters of the outer border are decorated with a combed pattern in red-orange, green, and light brown. The text block has been ruled to create three columns, and additional verses have been written in the inner and outer borders.
The recto side also features a text block that has been ruled to create three columns.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
[Ahuan Gallery London 18 May 1984] sold; to Edwin Binney 3rd California (1984-1986) bequest; to the Harvard Art Museums.
NOTE:
Stored at the San Diego Museum of Art from some time before 1986 until 1991 then at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 1991-2011.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums
Title: Folio of Persian Poetry
Description:
The folio features couplets of Persian poetry written diagonally in shikasta script and black ink, on paper enhanced by the decorative technique of marbling.
On the verso side, the text block and three-quarters of the outer border are decorated with a combed pattern in red-orange, green, and light brown.
The text block has been ruled to create three columns, and additional verses have been written in the inner and outer borders.
The recto side also features a text block that has been ruled to create three columns.
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