SAFAVID SHIRAZ, CIRCA 1570 AD
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KHUSRAW AND SHIRIN AT POLO
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, CIRCA 1570 AD
From the Khusraw and Shirin of Nizami, gouache heightened with gold on paper, a vigourous game of polo takes place at the centre of the composition as spectators look on from the sides, an elaborately decorated building behind housing further spectators and musicians above, with lines of black nasta'liq arranged in four columns and one heading in white on a gold floral ground, with gold and polychrome rules, mounted, framed and glazed
Miniature at largest 12½ x 7 5/8in. (31.5 x 19.4cm.); folio 12¾ x 8in. (32.4 x 20.2cm.)
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, CIRCA 1570 AD
From the Khusraw and Shirin of Nizami, gouache heightened with gold on paper, a vigourous game of polo takes place at the centre of the composition as spectators look on from the sides, an elaborately decorated building behind housing further spectators and musicians above, with lines of black nasta'liq arranged in four columns and one heading in white on a gold floral ground, with gold and polychrome rules, mounted, framed and glazed
Miniature at largest 12½ x 7 5/8in. (31.5 x 19.4cm.); folio 12¾ x 8in. (32.4 x 20.2cm.)
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