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BILQIS ENTHRONED, SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1550
From the opening bifolium of a Shahnama, gouache on paper heightened with gold, the scene depicting a seated princess in a pavilion watching dancers and musicians and served by attendants, four angels in the gold sky, the landscape with cypresses and blossoming trees, the borders richly illuminated, the reverse a similarly richly illuminated folio with the beginning of the Baysunghuri preface to the Shahnama - 13 3/4 x 7 3/4in (34.8 x 19.6cm)
From the opening bifolium of a Shahnama, gouache on paper heightened with gold, the scene depicting a seated princess in a pavilion watching dancers and musicians and served by attendants, four angels in the gold sky, the landscape with cypresses and blossoming trees, the borders richly illuminated, the reverse a similarly richly illuminated folio with the beginning of the Baysunghuri preface to the Shahnama - 13 3/4 x 7 3/4in (34.8 x 19.6cm)
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