Album Page with Persian and Chagatai Calligraphy

calligraphy: ca. 1700, borders: 18th century, album page: 19th century

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Album Page with Persian and Chagatai Calligraphy

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Title Album Page with Persian and Chagatai Calligraphy

Artwork Date calligraphy: ca. 1700, borders: 18th century, album page: 19th century

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Indian

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Medium Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Dimensions Sheet: 20 7/8 × 11 3/8 inches (53 × 28.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department Islamic Art

Credit Museum Purchase, L.A. Young Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2020.89.B

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Inscriptions Central section inscribed in Persian, in six diagonally oriented cartouches (arranged in a 2x3 grid) separated by four horizontally oriented cartouches with two lines each. These are framed by twelve cartouches inscribed in Chagatai. Persian inscriptions read by Shadi Shafiei, verses from Shahnama of Firdausi from the chapter entitled “How Nushirwan Required Babak to Muster the Host": [translation from Warner and Warner, Vol. 7, pp. 231 and 232: Know that this muster is without respect / Of persons, reticence, and modesty. / Then smiling called for coat of mail and helm / And held erect the flag of majesty / The chain-mail hung down from the Ruman helm / And was secured by many a fastening / A bow on arm and lasso on the saddle / While round his loins he had golden girdle / Then, lightly wheeling both to left and right, / Displayed both steed and rider to Babak / Said thus to him: “O Shah! Mayst thou be blessed! / May you be protected from evil eyes / What I have said was boldness from a slave / But never must thou turn from what is just.] [transliteration of Persian inscriptions: Bidanid kin ‘arz azarm nist / Sukhan bar muhaba va bar sharm nist / Bikhandid kasra o maghfer bikhast / Darafsh-i bozorgi bar afrasht rast / Forouhast az tark-i rumi zereh / Zadeh bar zereh bar faravan gereh / Bi bazou Kaman o bi zin bar kamand / Mian ra be zarin kamar kardeh band / ‘Inan ra chap o rast lakhti besoud / Salah-i savari be Babak nimoud / Bidou goft shaha anousheh bezi / Hamisheh ze to dour chashm-i badi / Daliri bod az bandeh in goft o gouy / Sezad gar napichi to az dad rouy]

Provenance

by 1950s, private collection (Switzerland)

2013-2020, (Francesca Galloway, London, United Kingdom)

2020, (Christie's Auction House, London, United Kingdom)

2020-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Northern Indian, Album Page with Persian and Chagatai Calligraphy, calligraphy: ca. 1700, borders: 18th century, album page: 19th century, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, L.A. Young Fund, 2020.89.B.