id:			151217
accession number:	1983.1115
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.1115
updated:		2023-03-14 12:01:20.366000

Persian Quatrains (Rubayi) and Calligraphic Exercises (recto); Persian Verse (khamriyya) (verso), c. 1509–50. Sultan Muhammad Khandan (Iranian, d. after 1550). Ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paper; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Mehmed A. Simsar in memory of Dr. Mehmed A. Simsar 1983.1115

title:				Persian Quatrains (Rubayi) and Calligraphic Exercises (recto); Persian Verse (khamriyya) (verso)
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creation date:			c. 1509–50
creation date earliest:		1500
creation date latest:		1559
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creditline:			Gift of Mrs. Mehmed A. Simsar in memory of Dr. Mehmed A. Simsar
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culture:	Afghanistan, Herat, Safavid period (1501–1722)
technique:	ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paper
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Manuscript
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CREATORS

* Sultan Muhammad Khandan (Iranian, d. after 1550)  - artist

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	inscription:	[Persian quatrain]
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	inscription:	[Persian quatrain]
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	inscription:	Al-faqīr Sulṭān Muḥammad Khandān
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	inscription:	[Persian khamriyya]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Mehmed A. [Louise Dean] Simsar [1900–1986], Washington, DC, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1983
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1983-
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This page contains two quatrains—poems made up of four lines. The diagonally written text in the center of the page is a poem addressed to a ruler, expressing hope for his success and the downfall of his enemies. The second poem is split between the horizontal panels at the top and bottom of the page. This quatrain praises the beauty of the writer’s beloved, saying that “her moonlike face can steal away a hundred besotted hearts.” At the right are calligraphic exercises displaying letters of the alphabet and the virtuoso skill of the calligrapher Sultan Muhammad Khandan, who signed the page in the triangle at the lower left of the inner text block.
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