An Ottoman Talismanic Shirt with Bold Green Calligraphy on C...

Hammer

£180

An Ottoman Talismanic Shirt with Bold Green Calligraphy on Cotton.

An Ottoman talismanic shirt featuring an all-over pattern of green Arabic inscriptions on a pale cotton ground. The shirt is covered in a meticulously arranged layout of Quranic verses and invocations, each script element executed in dense thuluth and naskh styles.

H: Approximately 93cm

Provenance: Private collection from a distinguished W London lady.