A leaf from a manuscript

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1625

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A leaf from a manuscript
Ottoman Turkey, circa 1625
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, with a central miniatureof a couple seated in a garden accompanied by musicians, lines of black naskh above and below in three columns between gold rules, creasing and flaking, mounted, framed and glazed
Folio 10.7/8 x 7½in. (27.5 x 19cm.)

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Another picnicking scene with a couple and musicians is in the Musée du Louvre. The painting style is very similar with the human figures with quite large oval shaped heads and large eyes, although the picture format is vertical rather than horizontal. (I. Stchoukine,Ia peinture Turque, Paris, 1971, figs. 2-3)

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