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	COLONIAL -- LATE (c.1857-1947)
	"Calligraphy on a teeming background," nasta'liq, Iran, c.1860
IRAN	More examples from this period from IRAN
EGYPT	More examples from this period from EGYPT
	A decorative panel featuring a Qur'anic verse, by Muhammad Yusuf, 1870/1
	1872/3, a sample piece by Imam ud-Din, North India
	A calligraphy panel by Mirza Ibrahim, 1863/4, in letters full of small drawings of religious figures
	A group of rare surviving embroidered covers for the Ka'abah and other sacred monuments
	A fanciful and ornate Qur'an dated 1883/4, by Muhammad 'Ali Kashmiri
	An example of "zoomorphic" calligraphy, with words shaped into animal figures
	An interesting example of decorative fake "calligraphy" on a glass vase by Fritz Heckert, later 1800's
	A "hamd" calligraphed by Durga Prasad "Nadir," 1915