AN OTTOMAN CALLIGRAPHY, TURKEY, DATED 1248 AH/1832 AD

Reference: ART3002497

Ink and watercolor on paper, laid down on wooden panel, depicting a mihraab enclosing Arabic inscriptions in elegant thuluth and tughra script. To the centre a thuluth inscription of 'Mashallah, What God has willed', a phrase that is used to express appreciation, joy, praise or thankfulness for an event or person. Above inscriptions of Quran 61 surah As-Saff v.13 in tughra style, further stylized with colorful flower sprays. 56 by 42 cm.