AN OTTOMAN GOLD-GILT CALLIGRAPHY PANEL SIGNED KAZASKER MUSTAFA IZZET EFENDI...
AN OTTOMAN GOLD-GILT CALLIGRAPHY PANEL SIGNED KAZASKER MUSTAFA IZZET EFENDI
Ottoman turkey, dated 1287 AH (1870 AD)
A monumental Ottoman calligraphic composition, executed in the Zer-Endud (gilded calligraphy) technique using a transfer stencil (kalıp), rendered in a bold, sweeping Jali Thuluth script in gold ink against a dark coated ground, the composition featuring dense interlocking letterforms engineered to be read dynamically from bottom to top, the inscription forming a devotional invocation dedicated to the revered Sufi saint Shaykh Abdulqadir Al-Jilani (1077–1166 AD), founder of the Qadiriyah Sufi order, it reads: 'Ya Hazrat-i Sultan Shaykh Seyed Abdul Qadir Al-Jilani' (O, His Holiness Sultan Sheikh Seyed Abdul Qadir al-Jilani), the panel enclosed within a refined border in the classic 19th-century Ottoman Baroque/Rococo style, featuring delicate gold-drawn corner pieces with arabesques, knotwork motifs (mühenna), and flowering blossoms, the lower-left corner bearing the signature of Kadiasker Mustafa Izzet and the date 1287 AH (1870 AD).
36.5cm x 32cm, total including frame 54cm x 58cm
Kazasker (Kadiasker) Mustafa Izzet Efendi was one of the most celebrated master calligraphers of the late Ottoman era. Serving as Chief Military Judge (Kazasker) and court calligrapher to Sultans Mahmud II and Abdülmecid I, he is famously renowned for designing the monumental roundels inside Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.
Complex composition designs in Jali Thuluth required painstaking proportioning. Calligraphers created master templates (kalıp) by pricking the outlines of the draft composition. Charcoal or chalk dust was pounced through the tiny holes onto black paper board, creating an accurate outline that was subsequently filled with gold leaf and detailed using a Zer-Endud technique. This allowed master calligraphers to reproduce exact, highly balanced compositions for devoted patrons and Sufi lodges (tekkes).
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AN OTTOMAN GOLD-GILT CALLIGRAPHY PANEL SIGNED KAZASKER MUSTAFA IZZET EFENDI
Ottoman turkey, dated 1287 AH (1870 AD)
A monumental Ottoman calligraphic composition, executed in the Zer-Endud (gilded calligraphy) technique using a transfer stencil (kalıp), rendered in a bold, sweeping Jali Thuluth script in gold ink against a dark coated ground, the composition featuring dense interlocking letterforms engineered to be read dynamically from bottom to top, the inscription forming a devotional invocation dedicated to the revered Sufi saint Shaykh Abdulqadir Al-Jilani (1077–1166 AD), founder of the Qadiriyah Sufi order, it reads: 'Ya Hazrat-i Sultan Shaykh Seyed Abdul Qadir Al-Jilani' (O, His Holiness Sultan Sheikh Seyed Abdul Qadir al-Jilani), the panel enclosed within a refined border in the classic 19th-century Ottoman Baroque/Rococo style, featuring delicate gold-drawn corner pieces with arabesques, knotwork motifs (mühenna), and flowering blossoms, the lower-left corner bearing the signature of Kadiasker Mustafa Izzet and the date 1287 AH (1870 AD).
36.5cm x 32cm, total including frame 54cm x 58cm
Kazasker (Kadiasker) Mustafa Izzet Efendi was one of the most celebrated master calligraphers of the late Ottoman era. Serving as Chief Military Judge (Kazasker) and court calligrapher to Sultans Mahmud II and Abdülmecid I, he is famously renowned for designing the monumental roundels inside Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.
Complex composition designs in Jali Thuluth required painstaking proportioning. Calligraphers created master templates (kalıp) by pricking the outlines of the draft composition. Charcoal or chalk dust was pounced through the tiny holes onto black paper board, creating an accurate outline that was subsequently filled with gold leaf and detailed using a Zer-Endud technique. This allowed master calligraphers to reproduce exact, highly balanced compositions for devoted patrons and Sufi lodges (tekkes).
Provenance:
From the property of a private collector.
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