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Calligraphy

Christie's

Public Domain

ArtistPersian
CultureQajar
Titles
  • Calligraphy
Date19th century
MediumPaper; fingernail-impressed and gold-speckled
DimensionsSheet: 10 3/4 × 6 5/16 in. (27.3 × 16 cm)
 Mount: 15 15/16 × 11 15/16 in. (40.5 × 30.3 cm)
 Mat: 21 3/4 × 16 in. (55.2 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Art of the Islamic Worlds Galas
Object number2021.67
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Islamic Worlds
Object Type
Provenance[Christie's, London, Calligraphy: Art in Writing, Mar 17-Apr 7 2021, Lot 28]; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
Published References The work is unpublished. Nakhuni is an understudied artistic technique and there are few resources in the secondary literature.

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