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Lure of the East: Selections from the Christopher Gandy Collection

(from 15th Apr until 27th Jul 2014)

Explore highlights from Christopher Gandy’s Islamic paintings and objects collection.

Detail of 'A lady smoking a hookah on a terrace by a lake', late 18th century (Museum no: EA2012.31)
Page from a dispersed manuscript of Jami's Yusuf and Zulaykhafront

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  • Page from a dispersed manuscript of Jami's Yusuf and Zulaykha (front)
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Page from a dispersed manuscript of Jami's Yusuf and Zulaykha

  • Description

    Luxury copies of celebrated literary texts often featured rich decorative programs, including gold illuminations decorating frontispieces and other areas of the text. Used at times to emphasize specific passages, illuminations are predominantly ornamental and are generally not related to the text. The margins of this page, covered with agile golden brushstrokes, are populated by birds and animals amid lush vegetation, a subject that enjoyed great popularity in the Indo-Persian manuscript tradition for several centuries.

  • Details

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    Series
    Yusuf and Zulaykha
    Associated place
    Asia › Uzbekistan › Bukhara (place of creation)
    Date
    1557 - 1558 (AH 964)
    Artist/maker
    Mahmud b. 'Ishaq al Shihabi (active 16th century) (calligrapher)
    Material and technique
    ink, colour, and gold on paper
    Dimensions
    26.5 x 15.5 cm approx. (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    processed material › metal › gold
    Technique index
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › calligraphy
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Christopher T. Gandy, 2012.
    Accession no.
    EA2012.56

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    • currently in research collection

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