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Collection Online as of September 28, 2023

From Dohras (Songs) 40 and 36 from the Kitab-i Nauras of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II (verso)

1618

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calligraphy by

Khalilullah Butshikan

(Persian, active in India 1596–c. 1620)

India, Bijapur, Deccan

Ink with two-tone gold on paper, double-sided

Page: 20.6 x 11 cm (8 1/8 x 4 5/16 in.)

Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection 2013.284.b

Location

not on view

Exhibition history

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (4/14/2015 - 7/26/2015): "Art of India's Deccan Sultans (c. 1500-1750)"

Sultans of Deccan India, 1500–1700: Opulence and Fantasy . The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (April 14-July 26, 2015).

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