Composite album folio, Dancing sufis; Cluster of primrose, calligraphic panels
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Object Details
- Artist
- Muhammadi
- Master Murad
- Calligrapher
- Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri
- Description
- Detached album folio: page of calligraphy with paintings; two calligraphic panels in Persian black nasta'liq script and two paintings; panel of calligraphy from Gulistan (Rose garden) by Sa'di in the upper right-hand corner; painting: Cluster of primrose by Master Murad in the lower right-hand corner; five couplets of poem by Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri in the lower left-hand corner; tinted drawing: Dancing sufis attributed to Muhammadi of Herat in the upper left-hand corner.
- Border: The painting and the text are set in red and gold rulings with a tendril scroll inner frame and gold, red and black outer frame mounted on a green paperboard with gold floral motifs.
- Inscriptions
- Lower right, "work of Ustad Murad."
- Lower left, "work of the slave Shah Mahmud."
- Upper left, "done by Master Muhammadi of Herat."
- Seal: Abbas, slave of the monarch sainthood [Ali b. Abi-Talib]."
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Engaging the Senses (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)
- Arts of the Islamic World (May 3, 1998 to January 3, 2016)
- Art of the Court of Shah Tahmasp (December 16, 1979 to August 14, 1980)
- The Brush of the Masters: Drawings from Iran (October 14, 1978 to May 30, 1979)
- Special Exhibition of Persian Art (May 1, 1960 to August 11, 1961)
- Special Exhibition, Near Eastern Art (September 15, 1953 to February 9, 1954)
- Islamic Art (November 3, 1944 to February 4, 1945)
- Exhibition of Islamic Art (February 24 to March 22, 1937)
- A Special Exhibition of Persian Art (January 6 to 27, 1935)
- Untitled Exhibition, University of Michigan, 1935 (1935)
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- ca. 1575
- Period
- Safavid period
- Accession Number
- F1946.15a-d
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Ink, color, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (album sheet): 45 x 30.3 cm (17 11/16 x 11 15/16 in)
- Origin
- Qazvin, Iran
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- flower
- dance
- Safavid period (1501 - 1722)
- Sufism
- poetry
- nasta'liq script
- Iran
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Record ID
- fsg_F1946.15a-d
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye39410cdfa-49a7-4f85-8c2f-a73e6ea66bc3
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