AN OTTOMAN CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL LEHVA, DATED 1284 AH/1867
An Ottoman calligraphic panel or levha, opaque pigments heighted with gold. Decorated with two cartouches enclosing Ottoman inscriptions in gold script ‘life and death is our right, oh Lord guide us to follow the path of Abu al-Qasim, an attributive name of the prophet’ on flower sprays decorated ground.
The outer border decorated with a dense design of flower heads with foliage and two small paintings of Great Mosque of Mecca and Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, signed by Muhammed Qasim, dated 1284 AH/1867 AD
44 by 63 cm.
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An Ottoman calligraphic panel or levha, opaque pigments heighted with gold. Decorated with two cartouches enclosing Ottoman inscriptions in gold script ‘life and death is our right, oh Lord guide us to follow the path of Abu al-Qasim, an attributive name of the prophet’ on flower sprays decorated ground.
The outer border decorated with a dense design of flower heads with foliage and two small paintings of Great Mosque of Mecca and Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, signed by Muhammed Qasim, dated 1284 AH/1867 AD
44 by 63 cm.
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