Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MA
November 08, 2015–January 31, 2016
The first international loan exhibition of Islamic art to foreground stories about people, Pearls on a String emphasizes the role of human relationships in inspiring and sustaining artistic creativity.
This exhibition comprises more than a hundred works in all media from a geographic area that spans the Bay of Bengal to the Mediterranean. The works on view date from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century: a period marked by the global movement of ideas and technologies and increased interaction among cultural and religious communities.
Objects on loan
Gold 3 altinik of Mahmud I, Qustantiniyya, 1143 H. 1997.65.4925
Gold 5 kabir ashrafi of Ahmed III, Qustantiniyya, 1115 H. 1928.13.1
Gold 3 altinik of Mahmud I, Qustantiniyya, 1143 H. 1997.65.4924
