A TALISMANIC SHIRT Ottoman Provinces, late 19th - early

A TALISMANIC SHIRT Ottoman Provinces, late 19th - early 20th century Of unbleached cotton, the open-front A-line shirt intricately worked in calligraphic charts and forms, predominantly in naskh script in black, red, and gold ink, with prayers and Quranic phrases, invocations, Kufic inscriptions, scrolling tendrils on the lower sides, the sacred names of Allah in gold within red, blue, and green circles, gilt highlights throughout, glazed, lined in unbleached cotton, edged with mercerised yarn, matching buttons and hooks, 81cm long.

Notes: Islamic & Indian Art