SAFAVID SHIRAZ, 16TH CENTURY
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TWO MINIATURES FROM THE KHAMSEH OF NIZAMI
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, 16TH CENTURY
Gouache on paper heightened with gold, one miniature depicting a emaciated Majnun, his head leaning on Layla's lap, the scene watched by attentive gazelles, foxes and a lion, a white leopard in a rocky massif above, the second miniature from the story of Khusraw and Shirin depicting a polo game with two double minaret-shaped goals and four players, crowds watch around, both with a line of text above and below, laid down on gold speckled pink or blue paper margins between gold and polychrome borders, the reverse mounted to the side with 10 or 11ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in two columns, mounted, framed and glazed
Each folio 11¾ x 8¾in. (30 x 22cm.) (2)
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, 16TH CENTURY
Gouache on paper heightened with gold, one miniature depicting a emaciated Majnun, his head leaning on Layla's lap, the scene watched by attentive gazelles, foxes and a lion, a white leopard in a rocky massif above, the second miniature from the story of Khusraw and Shirin depicting a polo game with two double minaret-shaped goals and four players, crowds watch around, both with a line of text above and below, laid down on gold speckled pink or blue paper margins between gold and polychrome borders, the reverse mounted to the side with 10 or 11ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in two columns, mounted, framed and glazed
Each folio 11¾ x 8¾in. (30 x 22cm.) (2)
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