A calligraphic panel by Ismail Zuhtu, on paper [Ottoman Turkey, second half of eighteenth century]

A calligraphic panel by Ismail Zuhtu, in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on paper [Ottoman Turkey, second half of eighteenth century] single sheet, 3 lines competent black thuluth, gold circular roundels separating the verses, ruled in black and gold, then mounted on card with eighteenth-century marbled paper added to border, some light surface soiling, some very slight rubbing to final line of text (with slight loss), modern ink inscriptions to versos in ink, 182 by 240mm. Signed inscriptions of authentication to the verso of this panel are in the hand of the celebrated Uskudar born scribe Necmeddin Okyay Efendi (1883-1976), whose talents extended calligraphy into the arts of marbling and bookbinding.