- Title
- Calligraphic Panel
- Date Made
- late 15th century
- Period
- Timurid (1370-1506)
- Medium
- Wood, carved, with traces of polychrome
- Dimensions
- 7 x 11 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. (17.7 x 28.5 x 2.8 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.76.3
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Islamic
- Curatorial Notes
The sole decoration on this panel is the inscribed signature of its maker: Husayn ibn (son of) Master Ahmad, woodcarver of Sari (in the Iranian province of Mazandaran, in the southern Caspian region), whose family members—including his father, brother, and uncle—evidently shared the same profession, to judge by the signatures on several other examples of wood carving. Written in thuluth, a monumental script with large, rounded proportions, the seven words of the inscription are deeply carved in three horizontal registers and set against a scrolling-leaf background; the tall, vertical letters of the lowest register are elongated so that they intersect with the letters of the lines above.
