sliderarrowCloseMenushare_facebookshare_instagramshare_xshare_linkedinshare_threadsshare_shareshare_tranditionalshare_calendarshare_emailicon_threadsconnect_facebookconnect_instagramconnect_xconnect_youtubeconnect_atbtn_arrowhamburger-x
Skip to main content
Menu Collections
Essence of Faith
Essence of Faith
Essence of Faith
ArtistChinese, born 1995, El Sadat City, Egypt
CultureChinese
Titles
  • Essence of Faith
Date2023
MediumJapanese sumi ink on Turkish ahar paper
DimensionsSheet (at open): 29 5/8 × 14 5/8 in. (75.2 × 37.1 cm)
Frame: 31 1/2 × 16 9/16 × 5/8 in. (80 × 42 × 1.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
Object number2025.734
Non exposé

Explore Further

Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; given to MFAH, 2025.
Exhibition HistoryN/A
Published References N/A Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Please see full diagram of inscriptions with translations appended to the end of this report.
N/A
Catalogue raisonnéN/A

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Roses and Nightingale
Muhammad Baqir
late 18th century
Ink and watercolor on paper
2015.97
Bifolio from a Qurʾan Manuscript
Unknown
late 8th–early 9th century
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on parchment
2017.430
Christie's
Ruqiyah Banu
19th century
Paper; fingernail-impressed and gold-speckled
2021.67
Dragons of Karabakh
Faig Ahmed
2021
Cotton warp and weft, wool pile; symmetrical knot
2023.109
Al Fazl bringing water for Yahya Barmaki to make his ablution
Unknown
c. 1595
(A) Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper (B) Ink and gold on paper
2007.1198
Page from a Manuscript of the Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Jami
Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi
before 1520 and c. 1603
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
2017.436
Folio of Calligraphy
Fahri of Bursa
late 16th century
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
2017.490
Bifolio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Unknown
15th century
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
2011.604
Manuscript of a Tashrih-i Mansuri (Mansur’s Anatomy)
Mansur ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yusuf Faqir Ilyas
AH 1212 / AD 1797–1798
Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
2010.1504
Manuscript of a Rubaiyat (Quatrains) of Omar Khayyam
Mir 'Ali Haravi
16th–17th century
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper; painted, gilded, and lacquered pasteboard binding
2010.1503
Standing Man
Unknown
19th century
Ink, gouache and gold on wove paper
40.70
Ahmed Mi