A FEW lines of a Turkish poem from the Ottoman period within a golden painted frame: a beautiful poem and a fine work of calligraphy. In the corner is noted: this is the handiwork of Rikkat Kunt (1903-1986).

Other information follows: Rikkat was the foremost female Turkish calligrapher at the time Kemal Ataturk decreed that the new Turkey had to change from Arabic script to Roman. This meant that calligraphers became isolated creatures, almost e