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Calligraphy from a Ghazal of Badr al-Din Hilali Jaghata’i (Persian, active c. 1500)

Calligraphy from a Ghazal of Badr al-Din Hilali Jaghata’i (Persian, active c. 1500)

c. 1550; borders added c. 1700s and mounted upside down
calligraphy by

Faqir Ali

(Persian, active c. 1550–1610)
Iran, Safavid period (1501–1722)
ink on paper (verso)
Page: 37.5 x 25.4 cm (14 3/4 x 10 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 2013.309.b
Location: not on view
  • before 1962
    Hagop Kevorkian [1872–1962], New York, NY
    1969-2013
    Ralph Benkaim [1914-2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    December 1, 1969
    (Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures: The Property of Kevorkian Foundation, 1 December 1969, lot 120, sold to Ralph Benkaim)
    2013-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 31, 2013-June 30, 2014).
    A Flower From Every Meadow. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY; Center for Asian Art and Culture, San Francisco, CA; Albright-Know Gallery of Art, Buffalo, New York, NY (1973).
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